Individual Quote by Walt Whitman

“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur…

— Walt Whitman

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal:…

— Pablo Neruda

“Every man is a poet at heart.”

— Sigmund Freud

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.”

— Wendy Higgins

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

— Edith Sitwell

“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

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.”

— Deyth Banger