Great Poet Quotes

Great Poet Quote of the day

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

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

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy.