| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. |
| Alonzo B Bragdon | Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours! For all are happy and rich and great In that City of By-and-by. |
| Charles Churchill | Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. |
| Sir John Denham | Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those. |
| William Ellery Channing | Most joyful let the Poet be, It is through him that all men see. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | "There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | O brave poets, keep back nothing, Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. |
| Philip James Bailey | Poets are all who love,--who feel great truths, And tell them. |
| Philip James Bailey | A poet not in love is out at sea, He must have a lay-figure. |
| Samuel Butler | And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent. |
| Thomas Carlyle | A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. |
| William Cowper | And spare the poet for his subject's sake. |
| William Cowper | Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard, To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. |
| William Cowper | There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. |
| William Cowper | They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own. |
| William Cowper | Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. |
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