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Poet Quotes by Walt Whitman
- Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the…
- Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially…
- I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to…
- Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of…
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
- The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
- The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
More Poet Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden