Automobile Quote by Allen Tate

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

— Lucinda Williams

“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac