Awards Quote by Robert Graves

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

— William Temple

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

— Judith Rich Harris

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

Only poetry inspires poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

— Howard Jacobson

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

There is no greater medal than to be acclaimed for your style.

— Johan Cruyff

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

— Simon Schama

To a poet nothing can be useless

— Samuel Johnson

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of…

— Philip Sidney