Alive Quote by Anonymous

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.”

— Sigmund Freud

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“Our real poems are already in us / and all we can do is dig. / We can work for years and never find…

— Jonathan Galassi

“POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.”

— Amy King

“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone…

— Charles Wright

“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.”

— Adrienne Rich

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta