Fields Quote by James A. McDougall

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming…

— Clive Davis

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”

— Anonymous

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

The way a great poet takes an idea, small like the bud of a flower and makes it bloom. And makes you feel deeply..

— Melody Minagar

It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in…

— Anonymous

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains –…

— John Muir

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

— Oscar Wilde

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde