| "The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs |
| "Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me." »Sigmund Freud |
| "A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." »Anonymous |
| "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." »Plato |
| "You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." »John Ciardi |
| "Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine |
| "The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood." »Jean Cocteau |
| "Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child." »H.L. Mencken |
| "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen |
| "Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them." »Robert Graves |
| "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." »Charles Baudelaire |
| "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be." »Abraham Maslow |
| "Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus." »Alfred Victor Vigny |
| "I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio |
| "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." »Salvador Dali |
| "Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet." »Horace |
| "To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing." »Walt Whitman |
| "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future." »Henry M. Wriston |
| "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 |
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