Poets and painters ha'e leave to lee. Sc. Pr.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them. Bailey.
Poets are liberating gods; they are free and make free. Emerson.
Poets are natural sayers, sent into the world for the end of expression. Emerson.
Poets are never young in one sense. Their 40 delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Schiller.
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Disraeli.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, / Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Waller.
Poets of old date, being privileged with senses, had also enjoyed external Nature; but chiefly as we enjoy the crystal cup which holds good or bad liquor for us; that is to say, in silence, or with slight incidental commentary; never, as I compute, till after the "Sorrows of Werter" was there man found who would say: Come, let us make a description: Having drunk the liquor, Come, let us eat the glass. Carlyle.
Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, the day's work. Emerson.