Accepted Quote by Stephen Spender

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One more royal trait properly belongs to the poet. I mean his cheerfulness, without which no man can be a poet,--for beauty is his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Alexander Pope

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue;…

— Philip Sidney

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

— Jean Cocteau