Poets

There is a center of sublime knowledge
within every human being,
and when you enter that place
you turn into a great poet —
you don't have to learn the art of poetry.
-Muktananda

One Power alone makes a Poet:

Imagination, the Divine Vision.
-William Blake

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
-Wallace Stevens

The great poet is always a seer,
seeing less with the eyes of the body
than he does with the eyes of the mind.
-Oscar Wilde

No poet can be a great poet

if he is not by nature mediumistic.

-Hazrat Inayat Khan

No man was ever yet a great poet,
without being at the same time
a profound philosopher.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet must have died as a man
before he is worth anything as a poet.
-Christian Morgenstern

For a long time I thought I was a poet,
but that's a high title to claim.
-Philip Pullman

There is no hidden poet in me

just a little piece of God

that might grow into poetry.

-Etty Hillesum

Poets are those who love,

who feel great truths and tell them.

-Philip James Bailey

A poet is a state of mind.

-Virginia Moore

The great poets are judged
by the frame of mind they induce.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is one who is able
to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
-Anais Nin

The poet above all else,
is a person who never forgets
certain sense impressions which he has experienced
and which he can relive again
as though with all their original freshness.
-Stephen Spendor

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain
hoping to be struck by lightning.
-James Dickey

A good poet is someone who manages,
in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,
to be struck by lightning five or six times;
a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.
-Randall Jarrell

A poet is, before anything else,
a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
-W. H. Auden

A poet: someone who is never satisfied
with saying one thing at a time.
-Theodore Roethke

A poet who knows what it is he wants to say
may be sure it's been said already.
-Hugh Kenner

A poet can survive anything
but a misprint.
-Oscar Wilde

Most of the poets of to-day
have the spider's talent of spinning,
but not her art of weaving.
-Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Many a poet is born after his death,
Opened our eyes when his own were closed,
And journeyed forth again from nothingness,
Like roses blossoming over the earth of his grave.
-Allama Muhammed Iqbal

To have great poets
there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman

God is the perfect poet.
-Robert Browning