Gems Quote by Alexander Pope

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

— William Cowper

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be…

— Stephen Spender

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you…

— Horace

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte