Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting…

— Herman Melville

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

— Gertrude Atherton

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

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore…

— Charles Lamb

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet…

— Tom Wolfe

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

— Thomas Carlyle

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood,…

— Homer

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 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

Born, the Man assumes the name and image of humanity, and becomes in all things like unto other men who dwell upon the earth.…

— Leonid Andreyev