Quotes about Poet

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.