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Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Plato
I have never know a poet who did not set a very high value on himself.
Cicero
Poets were the first teachers of mankind.
Horace
Physicians practice only what belongs to their art; mechanics work only at their trade, but learned and unlearned, we all write verse.
Horace
Poets have a license to lie.
Pliny
Never durst poet touch a pen to write,
Until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.
Shakespeare
The poet’s eye in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth,
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing,
A local habitation and a name.
Shakespeare
Modesty is a virtue not often found in poets, for almost everyone of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Cervantes
All poets are mad.
Robert Burton
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgement. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least, shut up in fewer words.
John Dryden
The employment of a poet is like that of a curious gunsmith or watchmaker; the iron or silver is not his own but they are the least part of that which gives the value the price lies wholly in the workmanship.
John Dryden
Poets, like painters, thus ‘unskilled’ to trace, The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover part, And hide with ornaments their want of art.
Alexander Pope
Poets are the only poor fellows in the world whom anybody will flatter.
Alexander Pope
Pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
Alexander pope
The man that hath not music in his soul can never be a genuine poet.
Alexander Pope
The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses.
Samuel Johnson
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
ST. Coleridge
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity; he is continually filling some other body.
John Keats
A poet is a nightingle who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
P.B. Shelley
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.
T. B. Macaulay
A poet is a person who put things together not as a watchmaker steel, or a shoemaker leather, but who put life into action.
John Ruskin
All that is the best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
H.W. Longfellow
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow Nor time unmake what poets know?
R.W. Emerson
The poet is the spectator of all time, and of all existence. For him no form is obsolete, no subject out of date.
Oscar Wilde
When man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet.
Oscar Wilde
Poets are prophets whose prophesying never comes true.
E. W. Howe
The poets can reach where the sun cannot.
Hindu Proverb
Poets and pigs are not appreciated until they are dead.
Italian Proverb
All poets are mad.
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is under stood.
T. S. Eliot
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
To a poet nothing can be useless.
Samuel Johnson
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularityit should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
John Keats
When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kenedy
Chameleons feed on light and air, Poet’s food is love and fame.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
Poet’s tell many lies.
Solon, Fragment
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth
We poets in our youth being in gladness; But there of come in the end despondency and madness.
William Wordsworth
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind.
P.B. Shelley
