- Allen Ginsberg
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
- Jane Roberts
- Jim Morrison
- Lewis Carroll
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.
Lord Byron, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron by Thomas Medwin (1823)I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.
Michael Faraday- Oscar Wilde
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert GravesA poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)- Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
- Theodore Roethke
- William Blake
- William Shakespeare