Excellence Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Devoid of the poetry of madness.”

— Elaine Showalter

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

— William Temple

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens