Best Quote by Jay-Z

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

— Jose Saramago

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

We are apt to consider Shakespeare only as a poet; but he was certainly one of the greatest moral philosophers that ever lived.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

— Sam Wanamaker

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

“Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a…

— Samuel Johnson

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

— Randall Jarrell

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

— Irving Layton

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall