Easily Quote by Robert Adamson

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he…

— Lady Gregory

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny

If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential…

— Randall Jarrell

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

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