“Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
Matthew 12:18 NIV
- 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
- Fernando Pessoa
- George MacDonald
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Homer
- Jane Roberts
- Jim Morrison
- John Milton
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Jules Verne
- 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 Graves- Robert Louis Stevenson
A 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
- Thomas Hardy
- Walter Scott
- William Blake
- William Shakespeare