Age Quote by Christopher Pearse Cranch

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

— Thomas Carlyle

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be…

— Harley King

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

“The condition of true naming, on the poet’s part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners…

— Samuel Johnson

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions…

— T. S. Eliot

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson