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
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.
Alice Walker
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.
Jessica White
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Thornton Wilder
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Rainn Wilson
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
Marlon Brando