Fool Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.

— Lewis Carroll

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

“Not altogether a fool," said G., "but then he's a poet, which I take to be only one remove from a fool." "True," said…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

— Jack London

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

— John Donne

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

— Anne Sexton

Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.

— Theodore Roethke

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray