For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous…

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry -…

— Subramanya Bharathi

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

Honest criticism is not direct war on the poet but upon the poetry.

— RMKATTA

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

— Alice Munro

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

In this story I am the poet You're the poetry.

— Arzum Uzun

“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he is her…

— Lang Leav

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz

His beauty isnt't what makes me love him more with each day that passes by but his sense of humour, his sweetness, his laughter,…

— Josephine

“A reasonable looking guy with a sense of humour to go to parties with: surely that´s not too much to ask, is it?”

— Nick Alexander

I've often thought about that and the only suitable member to join me on that climb [to Everest] was George Lowe: he was strong,…

— Edmund Hillary