She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are…

She does not love you. Your metaphors thrill her you are her poet. But that's all there's to it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

— Latto

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the…

— Allen Ginsberg

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

— Eugenio Montale

“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.”

— Petra Hermans

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a…

— Eavan Boland

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the…

— Wallace Stevens

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at…

— Richard Wilbur

“The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.”

— Wallace Stegner

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

— Gary Snyder

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— Richard M Knittle Jr

“A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”

— Else Lasker-Schüler