Great poet Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

— Henry David Thoreau

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

— William C. Bryant

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

— Mary MacLane

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland