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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
— Robert Frost
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.
— Ramsay MacDonald
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
— John Dryden
A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
— Piet Hein
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
— Oscar Wilde
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.
— Edward Hirsch
What does "poet laureate" mean? Nothing. It means a person with laurel branches twined around his head. Which is not something people do much now.
— Nicholson Baker
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
What a lovely drink this is, it makes one want to be a poet
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.
— Morgan Dragonwillow
Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions.
— M. Fethullah Gulen
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.
— David Biespiel
This is really what you want? To live with a poet?" "Yes," she said. "With the hot plate? And the lice?
— Joshua Ferris
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
— Franz Grillparzer
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
— Margaret Atwood
What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
— Rachel Held Evans
For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.
— Debasish Mridha
Poetry is an art of telling the poet's own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.
— Debasish Mridha
What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
— Rita Dove
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
— Abraham H. Maslow
Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease." "This
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
