Future generation Quote by Samuel Johnson

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“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

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the…

— Wallace Stevens

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal:…

— Pablo Neruda

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting…

— Herman Melville

“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

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and…

— Socrates

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,…

— William Faulkner