America Quote by Charles Harper Webb

“The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said.…

— Dan Simmons

Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.

— Theresa Villiers

“That's a poet.' 'I thought you said it was a bo-at.' 'Stupid pet! Don't you know what a poet it?' 'Why, a thing to…

— George MacDonald

“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool." "True," said…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humour is the oil and…

— Washington Irving

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

— Sylvia Plath

“I think the perfect pen name is Quill McSeagull. Especially for writing flights of fancy—and nothing has more feathers than a love poem.”

— Jarod Kintz