Famous Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

“So things remained until one day, many years later, I happened upon a line in a poem by Heine: “Death is the cooling night.”…

— Yu Hua

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done…

— James Baldwin

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under…

— Conrad Aiken

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

— Nicholas Sparks

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…

— Mary Ruefle

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck