982 Quotes About Poet

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

As to ''Don Juan,'' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

We are born poets. we become orators.

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.