Example Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of…

— Edward Abbey

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming…

— Clive Davis

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha