Concerned Quote by Lady Gregory

If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential…

— Randall Jarrell

“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written…

— John Pudney

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

— Robert Adamson

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

— Will Smith

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death…

— William Butler Yeats

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel…

— Stephen Dobyns

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny