We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn. But whereThe wind is westerly,Where gnarled November makes the spiders flyInto the apparitions of the sky,They purpose nothing but their ease and dieUrgently beating east to sunrise and the sea;

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.

A poet adds the awe factor to our ordinary perceptions.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings.

The history of time is captured by poet, artist, writer, photographer�!

When in love, every soul becomes a poet.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet ... I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.

That man is either crazy or he is a poet.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.