Men Quote by Alexander Pope

We all scribble poetry.

— Homer

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot…

— Henry R. Luce

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

— William Hazlitt

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

— Anonymous

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

— Jack London

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

— John Galsworthy

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore