Beauty Quote by David Hume

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit…

— David Hume

“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words set prettily…

— Therese Anne Fowler

There's not that many jobs in poetry.

— Tim Key

Not many poets have editors.

— Kevin Young

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

— Anthony Mackie

Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For…

— Jeanette Winterson

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman.…

— Laurence Olivier

“Being his workmanship doesn’t mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God. And this…

— Emily P. Freeman

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much…

— Robert Frost

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg