Poetry Quote by Barbara Sher

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.”

— Donald Foster

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.”

— Elizabeth George

Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!

— Moliere

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”

— Hafiz

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

— e. e. cummings

“Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney