Business Quote by Henry David Thoreau

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

All a poet can do today is warn.

— Wilfred Owen

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to…

— Karl Shapiro

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal