Childhood Quote by Christopher Morley

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

— Leopold Schefer

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

— John Dryden

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things…

— Stephen Spender

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a…

— Mary Stewart

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

— William Wordsworth

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.

— Karl Kraus

“Every poet will forever try to write the greatest poem ever written, I have found that this kind of poem can be written with…

— Michael Jones