Art Quote by Paul Valery

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

— Victor Hugo

“ 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

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 is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

— Lawrence Durrell

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

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

— Bob Dylan

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens