Communication Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

— Witold Gombrowicz

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth