God Quote by Dan Simmons

“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

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

— Dan Simmons

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

— Dan Simmons

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

— Dan Simmons

The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than…

— George Edward Woodberry

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at…

— Anonymous

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©”

— David J Delaney

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest…

— Herman E. Kittredge