Ardent Quote by Edwin Markham

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

— Plato