Doe Quote by Thomas Carlyle

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

— Eugenio Montale

“Being his workmanship doesn’t mean we are all poets. It means we are all poems, individual created works of a creative God. And this…

— Emily P. Freeman

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

— Paul Eluard