A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

“For with his little secret that he cannot divulge, the poet buys this power of the word to tell everybody else's dark secrets. A…

— Søren Kierkegaard

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.

— David Biespiel

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long…

— Robert Frost

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the…

— Charles Ives

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he…

— Jacques Maritain

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

— James Broughton

“That is the difference between a botanist and a poet: a botanist knows about the flower, the poet knows the flower.”

— Osho

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I…

— Thomas MacDonagh

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

{A poem titled THE SECRET LOVE FOR YOUR FRIEND}Have you ever fell for someone you knew you shouldn't have~> you try your best to…

— Malcolm Cleveland

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne