There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one…

“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of…

— Joseph Addison

“add one make dumb add two make poo”

— Janet Hutch

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

— Amanda Schull

“Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and…

— Ian Frazier

“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times.”

— Anonymous

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go…

— Knut Hamsun

Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets…

— Stephen Spender

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

— Robert Frost

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

— Robert Browning

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

People probably long for something genuinely personal in a society where the personal is often indistinguishable from the "personalized." Maybe the poetry audience member…

— Rae Armantrout

Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on…

— William Stafford