Top Poet Quotes
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie Fiedler 
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Vicente Aleixandre
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.
Wilfred Owen
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
August Wilson
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