Able Quote by Anais Nin

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet,…

— Ella Maillart

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

— Franz Grillparzer

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Amiri Baraka

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will…

— James A. Michener

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous