Credentials Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the…

— Jacques Derrida

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

— Katherine Anne Porter

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

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

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

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

— Lawrence Durrell

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

— Edith Sitwell

“Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign…

— Blaise Pascal

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery