It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
Philip Levine
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
George Henry Lewes
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
The eye is the notebook of the poet.
James Russell Lowell
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
Norman MacCaig
Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
Ray Manzarek
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. Somerset Maugham
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
Vladimir Nabokov