Arrogant Quote by Daisaku Ikeda

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers…

— Edith Sitwell

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or…

— Edgar Allan Poe

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

— John Keats

Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be…

— Stephen Spender

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow