Firsts Quote by Gerard De Nerval

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was…

— Salvador Dali

“A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman. ”

— Wallace Stevens

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a…

— Dorianne Laux

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

— Wallace Stevens

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they

— John Keats

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry…

— Dylan Thomas

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

— Franz Grillparzer

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he…

— Anonymous

Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in…

— Honore de Balzac