Certain Quote by Stephen Burt

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

— Diane Wakoski

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would…

— C.S. Lewis

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that…

— Oliver Goldsmith