Borrowed Quote by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility…

— T. S. Eliot

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

— Paul Fry

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.…

— Mark Twain

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“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

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato