Craftsman Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value…

— Plato

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility…

— Ben Jonson

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if…

— Orison Swett Marden

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom, she knows…

— Kamand Kojouri

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility…

— T. S. Eliot

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal