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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

Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction. — William Blake

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

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone. — Thomas Hood

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

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him. — Yang Wanli

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

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing. — Eileen Myles

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 the
poet'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

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

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

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about. — Ray Bradbury

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

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities. — Walter Scott

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges