Comment Quote by Sigmund Freud

“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and there is…

— Charles Bukowski

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly…

— Anonymous

“But where the ideas of morality and decency alter from one age to another, and where vicious manners are described, without being marked with…

— David Hume

“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They…

— James P. Carse

“The poet must be in the right, not only in his esthetic, but in his scientific point of view,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa,…

— Randall Jarrell

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

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb