Great Poet Quotations

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.