Beautiful Quote by Hafez

“A poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful parched, holy mouth.”

— Hafiz

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

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

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

“YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.”

— Amy King