Bankers Quote by Allen Tate

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to…

— Miller Williams

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it.…

— Natalie Goldberg

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

— Jules Verne