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Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine…

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Nikki Giovanni

I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line…

— Denise Duhamel

“It may be that those who care for poetry lost little by his death. Fluent in prose, he never wrote verse for the sake…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul…

— Aphra Behn

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps poets scribbling…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky