Action Quote by Honore de Balzac

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to…

— Friedrich Schiller

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

— Natalie Goldberg

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.…

— Michel de Montaigne

The poet wants justice. And the poet wants art. In poetry we can't have one without the other.

— Edward Hirsch

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

— Leonard Cohen