“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense… — Douglas A. Martin Copy Share Image
I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
