Great poet Quote by Kenneth Branagh

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle