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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
— Honore De Balzac
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?
— James A. McDougall
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
— Sandra Cisneros
A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
— Steven Seagal
Lewis said sadly to me, 'When I at last realized that I was not, after all, going to be a great man...' I think he meant 'a great poet.
— Jocelyn Gibb
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
— T. S. Eliot
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
— Lewis Cass
There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.
Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. — Toba Beta
Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. — Toba Beta
The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
— Walt Whitman
All great poets have been men of great knowledge.
— William C. Bryant
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Good poets borrow, great poets steal
— T. S. Eliot
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.
— Gerald Brenan
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
— Ogden Nash
Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
— Flora Thompson
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.
— Vanna Bonta
It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1
— Yuval Noah Harari
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
— Umberto Eco
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
— Giacomo Casanova
As the American poet, Marianne Moore, said: There is a great deal of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.
— William Strunk Jr.
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
— John Drinkwater
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
— Francois Mauriac
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
— George Bernard Shaw
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...
— Leni Riefenstahl
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.
— Walter Isaacson
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
— Salvador Dali
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
— Octavio Paz
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.
— Heinrich Heine
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
— William C. Bryant
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
— Heinrich Heine
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.
— Honore De Balzac
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...
— Edith Sitwell
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet ... yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
— Idries Shah
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
— Richard Flanagan
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
— Isaac D'Israeli
The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.
— Anthony Minghella
A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician.
— Orna Ross
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.
— Loren Eiseley
Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.
— Roberto Calasso
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
— Kenneth Branagh
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
— Marie Corelli
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell
hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me your personal hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me your personal hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
— Claude Monet