Brilliant Quote by Horace Walpole

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

— Victor Hugo

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…

— David Lehman

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

— Theophile Gautier

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

— Edith Sitwell

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible:…

— e. e. cummings

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something…

— Anonymous

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

— Oscar Wilde