There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
Abraham Lincoln

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

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

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright