Poetry Quote by Alexander Pope

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool." "True," said…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .”

— John Berryman

“He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“A fool conscious of her foolishness Is to that extent wise. But a fool who considers himself wise Is the one to be called…

— Anonymous

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company.…

— Ian Doescher