Love Quote by Walt Whitman

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility…

— Ben Jonson

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

— Alice Munro

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the…

— Homer

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

— George Meredith

“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I hear that…

— Charles Bukowski

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

Each man is the bard of his own existence.

— Cormac McCarthy