Conceit Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— William Temple

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

— Finley Peter Dunne

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of…

— Philip Sidney

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

— Stanley Kunitz

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

— Jean Cocteau

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

— Anonymous