Great poet Quote by William Hazlitt

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in…

— Lee Strasberg

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“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

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

— Charles Bukowski

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures,…

— Honore de Balzac

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

— Oscar Wilde

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail…

— Walt Whitman

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved,…

— Meg Rosoff

“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