Poets are born, not made.
Poetry Quotes
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.
I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Every true poet is inevitably a Columbus.
The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
