Faculty Quote by Augustus William Hare

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Federico Garcia Lorca

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this…

— Robert Schumann

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

— W. H. Auden

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or…

— Marvin Bell

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

— Peter Kreeft

“Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.”

— Colin Wilson