Age Quote by John Dryden

“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had…

— Stanisław Lem

There have been many poets who have lived at the fifth center of creativity and never gone ahead - many painters, many dancers, many…

— Rajneesh

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

— Kenneth Koch

God, eldest of Poets.

— William Watson

“The poem succeeds by being 3-dimensional in the reader's mind rather than 1-dimensional words on paper.”

— the mag man

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty…

— Jonathan Swift

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated…

— T.S. Eliot

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

— Greg Bear

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley