Age Quote by T. S. Eliot

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

— Nicole Brossard

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

— Thomas Hardy

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

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

— Joseph Campbell

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

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

— Joseph Campbell

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

— James Russell Lowell

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith

Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or…

— Marvin Bell

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz