Creation Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

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

— Gary Snyder

Only poetry inspires poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky