No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
Poetry Quotes
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
Poets are born, not made.
The tongue of a poet is always the last to be corrupted.
Good poets are like angels of Heaven.
He falsifies who renders a verse just as it looks.
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
