Family Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that…

— G.K. Chesterton

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death…

— William Butler Yeats

“This cassock, I admit, is in need of repair," he said, straightening. "But am I really so prolix?" "Heavens no, Father," I reassured him…

— William L. Biersach

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

— Wallace Stevens

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

— Hilton Als

Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical,(...) the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle…

— Anonymous

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest,…

— Juvenal

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

— Sylvia Plath

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle