A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which... →
Lee Strasberg
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Bayard Taylor
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
William Temple
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Mary Timony
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Jean Toomer
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
Natasha Trethewey
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Paul Valery
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
Simone Veil
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
Paul Verlaine