Bigs Quote by Sylvia Plath

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

“The man was poetry in motion.”

— Danielle Bourdon

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he…

— Anonymous

“He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course,…

— Cora Carmack

“And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or…

— G.K. Chesterton

“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a…

— Hisham Matar

“This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit and forces…

— Paul Auster

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

— Stefan Kanfer

“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

— William Bernbach

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