Great poet Quote by Anatoli Rybakov

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of…

— Mark Twain

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history -…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were…

— Malik Yusef

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how…

— John Lennon

And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell…

— John Lennon

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in…

— Anonymous

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

— Oscar Wilde

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming…

— Clive Davis