- Queen Victoria (Wikipedia)
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days—which was longer than those of any of her predecessors—constituted the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
- Allen Ginsberg
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Elizabeth Siddal
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Émile Zola, Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860)- Emily Brontë
- Emily Dickinson
- Jane Roberts
- Jim Morrison
- Jorge Luis Borges
- 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
- Thomas Gray
- William Blake
- William Shakespeare