Auden Quote by David Duchovny

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think…

— Bob Dylan

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

Was ever poet so trusted before?

— Samuel Johnson

Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by…

— John Hollander

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis