Creatures Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Go to the poets, they will speak to thee More perfectly of purer creatures--”

— William Wordsworth

“Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.”

— Álvaro de Campos

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

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

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee