You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets.Bob Dylan
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.Ivan Turgenev
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.Lionel Trilling
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.Søren Kierkegaard