Poet is a person possessing special powers of imagination or expression.

1. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

2. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet
Anonymous

3. Political parties are like poets, born, not made.
Henry Ford

4. Everybody has their own idea of what’s a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino – they’re all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
Bob Dylan

5. Underneath the poet tree Come and rest awhile with me, And watch the way the word-web weaves Between the shady story leaves. The branches of the poet tree Reach from the mountains to the sea. So come and dream, or come and climb- Just don’t get hit by falling rhymes.
Shel Silverstein

6. But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false1.
H.P. Lovecraft

7. Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

8. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

9. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination – stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one – million – year – old light. A vast pattern – of which I am a part… What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Richard Feynman

10. All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz

11. There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous — and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Thomas Wolfe

12. I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life.
Gabriele d’Annunzio

13. Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
Bhagat Singh

14. The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

15. Love is a boy by poets styl'd, then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Samuel Butler

16. Good poets are like angels of Heaven
Anonymous

17. Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
Greg Bear

18. But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false.
H. P. Lovecraft

19. Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.
Amiri Baraka

20. The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
Marty Rubin

21. Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
Jorge Luis Borges

22. If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
Del Close

23. Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.
Robert Graves

24. Tennyson and Browning are poets and they think; but tl y do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility. When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating desparate experience; the ordinary man’s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter fails in love, or reads Spinoza and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
T.S. Eliot

25. What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
James Dickey

26. Screamin' carpe diem until I'm a dead poet.
Jay Z

27. Poets tell many lies.
Solon

28. Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Amy Lowell

29. I feel very connected to poets across the country.
John Barton

30. When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

31. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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32. Each child is born a poet and every poet is a child.
Piri Thomas

33. In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

34. If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
John F. Kennedy

35. The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley

36. All men are poets at heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

38. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

39. The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
Stephen Spender

40. Heaven deliver us, what's a poet1 Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. Dorothy L. Sayers

41. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
Woody Allen

42. Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell

43. Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

44. A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

45. Most joyful let the Poet be It is through him that all men see.
William Ellery

46. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for
Anonymous

47. The Greatest Poem Ever Known Is One All Poets Have Outgrown. The Poetry, Innate, Untold, Of Being Only Four Years Old.
Christopher Morley

48. All poets are mad.
Robert Burton

49. Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide

50. The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
Jean Coctea

51. Oh, what company good poets are!
Jose Marti

52. The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

53. A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

54. Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

55. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles

56. Poets are shameless with their experiences,they exploit them.
Friedrich Nietzsche

57. To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves

58. If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

59. I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.
Jaime Gil

60. A poet can survive everything but a misprint
Anonymous

61. To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

62. Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
Conor Oberst