Inventor Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as…

— George Henry Lewes

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

— Jean Cocteau

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Poet is not a copier but a creator.

— RMKATTA

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Marie Corelli

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

— Jason Silva

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner