A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.

“A Silent Cry Doesn't Have Any Single Drop of Tear”

— Rahman Mostafiz

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

— T. S. Eliot

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a…

— Edward Dowden

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

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi