Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.