Activity Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“One will surely understand what I consider to be the function of poetry. It is to nourish the spirit of man by giving him…

— Frances Ponge

“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

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

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

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

— Plato

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 language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . .…

— Christopher Fry