Lifetime Quote by Randall Jarrell

“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.”

— Anonymous

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.”

— James Dickey

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so…

— W. H. Auden

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov