Quotes about Poets, page 3

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poets

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Quote by Robert Frost about poets

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about poets

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Quote by Edith Wharton about poets

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about poets

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Quote by Robert Graves about poets

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Quote by Sidonie - Gabrielle Colette about poets

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about poets

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Quote by Antonin Artaud about poets

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poets

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Quote by Edward Estlin Cummings about poets

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Quote by Alfred de Musset about poets

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven about poets

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Quote by Alphonse Daudet about poets

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Quote by Khalil Gibran about poets

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Quote by Sinclair Lewis about poets

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about poets

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Quote by Max Frisch about poets

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Quote by Marlon Brando about poets

the poet doesn't have age.

Quote by Petru Cardu about poets