Bird Quote by Khalil Gibran

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish…

— Anonymous

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,…

— Charles Baudelaire

The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

— Carl Sandburg

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

“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

“Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a sort of lark or something. Our tradition…

— Jane Johnson

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst…

— Charles Baudelaire