Perfect Quote by Alice Munro

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

God is the perfect poet.

— Robert Browning

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done…

— James Baldwin

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that…

— Derek Walcott

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray