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There are very few great poets in the world. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
To have great poets, there must be great audiences. -- Walt Whitman
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. -- Isaac Rosenberg
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one. -- Orson F. Whitney
Good poets borrow, great poets steal -- T. S. Eliot
All great poets have been men of great knowledge. -- William C. Bryant
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. -- Isaac Rosenberg
The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster. -- Emanuel Lasker
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness? -- Susanna Kaysen
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. -- Sarah Kay
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read. -- Mary Oliver
When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem. -- Rajneesh
Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us. -- James Russell Lowell
The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops. -- John Muir
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. -- Ameen Rihani
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid -- Oscar Wilde
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid. -- Umberto Eco
The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great. -- Nick Flynn
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. -- Plato
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. -- Steven Seagal
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. -- William Temple
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. -- Heinrich Heine
In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. -- Kenneth Branagh
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. -- Octavio Paz
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. -- John Drinkwater
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. -- Lytton Strachey
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. -- Marie Corelli
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. -- Antonio Machado
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. -- Sophie Swetchine
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. -- Sandra Cisneros
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. -- William Wordsworth
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. -- Hafez
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. -- Philip Larkin
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. -- Philip James Bailey
There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. -- Toba Beta
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists. -- Robert Hass
Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. -- William C. Brown
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation . -- Napoleon Hill
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness. -- Stephen Spender
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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