Age Quote by Sophie Swetchine

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated…

— T.S. Eliot

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

— Franz Grillparzer

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

— Raymond Chandler

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic