Great poet Quote by Marie Corelli

Discovery is poetry to genius

— William Mocca

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Plato

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau