Accepted Quote by Oscar Wilde

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

— Dudley Moore

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.”

— Amit Kalantri

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

— Charles Baudelaire

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible…

— Sigmund Freud

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

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

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be…

— John Dryden

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson