Answers Quote by Philip Sidney

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

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

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will…

— A. E. Housman

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero