I'm not a poet and I know it.

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

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You…

— Robert Browning

“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We break easily.…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

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

— Ally Condie

“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

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney