Creator Quote by Torquato Tasso

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

— Audre Lorde

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

— John Calvin

The God that can be named is not God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

— Helen Bevington

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

“For it is not we who call God by these names. We do not invent them. On the contrary, if it depended on us,…

— Herman Bavinck

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

— Irving Layton