Asks Quote by Christopher Morley

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can…

— Peter Ackroyd

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

— Michael Longley