Conform Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his…

— Epes Sargent

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

— Lionel Trilling

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

— Virginia Woolf

“What you call poetry and passion are nothing but lies—with beautiful facades. Out of your hundred poets, ninety-nine are not really poets but only…

— Osho

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

— Joyce Carol Oates

Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the…

— Lionel Trilling

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.

— Sheri S. Tepper