Differences Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age,…

— John Milton

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

— Carolyn Kizer

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

— Ben Jonson

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

— Carolyn Kizer

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

— Raymond Sokolov

“Some folks called Dewar a dilettante; he did not consider it an appropriate term, indicating as it did a lack of seriousness, a trifling…

— Joan Smith

“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbauld