Definitions Quote by Norman Cousins

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the…

— John Drinkwater

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“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

Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all…

— Steven Saylor

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

— W. H. Auden

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or…

— Shane McCrae

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

— Rod McKuen

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

— Paul Fry

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry…

— Dylan Thomas