Poet Quotes

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

If you can earn the ink-covered heart of a poet – they will inscribe you into infinity.

Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.