Beauty Quote by David Hume

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such spirit and…

— David Hume

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how long the…

— Janet Fitch

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

— Abraham Maslow

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this…

— Adam Kirsch

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major…

— W. H. Auden

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

— Henry David Thoreau

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not…

— Anonymous

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado