Inspirational Quote by Stanley Kunitz

“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A…

— Søren Kierkegaard

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long…

— Robert Frost

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the…

— Charles Ives

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he…

— Jacques Maritain

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

— James Broughton

“That is the difference between a botanist and a poet: a botanist knows about the flower, the poet knows the flower.”

— Osho

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I…

— Thomas MacDonagh

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson