Feelings Quote by Anonymous

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about…

— Mark Van Doren

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— T. S. Eliot

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

— Paul Claudel

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

— Hugh Prather

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

— Anonymous

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley