Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
Jools Holland
I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
Jim Jarmusch
There are very few great poets in the world.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Science is not addressed to poets.
George Henry Lewes
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. Lovecraft
Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
Mary MacLane
Poets take themselves very seriously.
Grace Paley
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Francine Prose