Brother Quote by Jonathan Swift

Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill.

— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

— Anonymous

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and…

— Charlotte Brontë

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of wine and…

— Nasty Nigel Lawrence

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath the dust…

— Anonymous

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the…

— Henry David Thoreau