Differences Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will…

— James A. Michener

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

— Kenneth Koch

“We see in essence not with two eyes but with three: with the two eyes of the body and with the eye of the…

— Franz Delitzsch

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

— Wallace Stevens

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Mariana Fulger

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

— Peter Kreeft

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

— Wallace Stevens

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many…

— Rajneesh