No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Poetry Quotes
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Poets are born, not made.
The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted.
Good poets are like angels of Heaven.
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express’d in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
She could never forget that the man she loved was a man with a past. He had been a poet. Deep down in her soul there was the corroding fear lest any moment a particularly fine sunset or the sight of a rose in bud might undo all the work she had done, sending Rodney […]
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
