Berlioz Quote by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

— William Bernbach

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common…

— Aristotle

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

— James Broughton

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances…

— Martin Scorsese

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius,…

— Andre Aciman