Better Quote by Robert Schumann

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

— Oscar Wilde

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see…

— T.S. Eliot

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not…

— Robert Penn Warren

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is…

— Northrop Frye

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have…

— Wislawa Szymborska

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world…

— Nikos Kazantzakis