She's a good poet but a very neurotic woman." "Don't the…

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.

— T. S. Eliot

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

— Gil Scott-Heron

The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or…

— Karl Shapiro

“Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do…

— John Keats

Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also…

— Anonymous

“...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no…

— Orhan Pamuk

If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential…

— Randall Jarrell

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

— Jack Gleeson

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a…

— Socrates

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door & exposing the…

— Chocolate Waters

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the…

— T. S. Eliot

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would…

— Edward Albee