Quotes About Poet I

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. ~William Bolitho

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood. ~Jean Cocteau

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.~John Ciardi

To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~Yevgeny Yentushenko

God is the perfect poet. ~Robert Browning

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ~Robert Frost

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe Shelley

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: “Sing for us soon again;” that is as much as to say, “May new sufferings torment your soul.” ~Soren Kierkegaard

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. Yeats

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. ~André Gide
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. ~Sainte-Beuve

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~Wallace Stevens

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ~Alfred de Musset

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ~George Sand, 1851

Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” ~Robert Penn Warren