Birth Quote by American Proverb

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”

— E. Millicent Sowerby

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We are born poets. we become orators.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Poetry’s not made of words”

— Ariana Reines

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

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

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit