America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. Votes: 4
Rebecca Harding DavisThe works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauThere is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonA subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. Votes: 2
Friedrich NietzscheNo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. Votes: 2
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLike a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. Votes: 2
Heinrich HeineIn the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. Votes: 2
Kenneth BranaghTo be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. Votes: 2
Octavio PazThe great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. Votes: 0
Antonio MachadoTrue poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineGreat Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. Votes: 0
Marie CorelliI'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. Votes: 0
Sandra CisnerosKnowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. Votes: 0
William WordsworthOne of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. Votes: 0
Philip LarkinPoets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Votes: 0
Philip James Bailey