Great Poet Quotations

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I'm not a great poetry fan.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.