Great Poets Quotes

23 Great Poets quotes by 23 unique authors

Good poets borrow, great poets steal — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative… — Emanuel Lasker
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common:… — Sarah Kay
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts… — John Muir
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great… — Mary Oliver
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. — Walt Whitman
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved… — Oscar Wilde
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the… — James A. Baldwin
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and… — Susanna Kaysen
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your… — Rajneesh
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men… — Orson F. Whitney
There are very few great poets in the world. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Great poets get their inspiration from nature — Russyb
Sometimes the heart wants to speak volumes when only a few, well chosen words are really necessary. Love quotes come from the great poets of… — Charyll Gatela
Great poets are great copy editors. — Dejan Stojanovic
Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love, that is, mysterious… — Jean-Paul Malfatti
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in… — Andrew Motion

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