Avarice Quote by William Hazlitt

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

— Roger L'Estrange

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

— Jean Cocteau

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

“Don’t be a poet, my darling The taxidermist for ideas and lost dreams”

— Erna Grcic

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“Starting with a melody, she'll lead you far away down passages of poetry where dreamers often play.”

— Susan Waterwyk

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

— Allen Ginsberg

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka