I was a piano player before I was a poet.
Gil Scott-Heron
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
William Shenstone
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
Philip Sidney
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
Mattie Stepanek
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Wallace Stevens
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the... →
Anne Stevenson
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.
Michael Stipe