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| A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. |
| Plato |
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| He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. |
| Robert Frost |
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| Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. |
| Robert Frost |
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| Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. |
| Jean Cocteau |
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| Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? |
| Richard Feynman |
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| Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue |
| Alexander Pope |
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| The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. |
| T.S. Eliot |
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| The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal |
| William James |
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| The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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