Drunkards Quote by John Dryden

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— George Henry Lewes

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible…

— Sigmund Freud

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

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

— Allen Tate

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

— Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous