“I used to think all poets were Byronic.”
Wendy Cope
“I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.”
Bob Dylan
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.”
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.”
John Muir
“I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, not a major poet.”
Anne Wright
