Authorship Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee…

— Virginia Woolf

If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron,…

— Charlotte Bronte

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years…

— Michel Faber

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

— Denis Diderot

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

— Kool Keith

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

— Elizabeth Janeway