Long Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

— Oscar Wilde

“a poet is after all, to see”

— Ann Wood

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson

“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only a calm…

— Alok Mishra

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences…

— T. S. Eliot

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton