Poetry Quote by Richard Rorty

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

— Charles Baudelaire

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to…

— Italo Calvino

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having…

— Nicholas Mosley

“The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.”

— Walt Whitman

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the…

— Plato

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The writer sensitive to language finds his own metaphors, not simply because he has been taught to avoid clichés but because he enjoys finding…

— John Gardner

Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees.

— Czeslaw Milosz

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte