You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with…

I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not…

— Hozier

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to write lyrics,…

— Petra Haden

I dont no where I belong, I dont know what I did wrong. but I can write a song..

— Twin 2

“It’s true I’m not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I’m a poet, because I know you And because…

— David W. McFadden

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

— Andre Gide

I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've…

— Sarah Kay

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“And if you were to come across her unexpectedly on the road, your heart would not beat faster like a trapped bird fluttering in…

— Victoria Alexander

"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world…

— Harriet Monroe

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

The child and the poet know that Reality is what does not need to be realistic.

— Vicki Lewis Thompson

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up…

— William Stafford

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie