Clear Quote by Antjie Krog

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality…

— Ben Lerner

It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.

— Nicole Krauss

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I've a poet's sensitivity.

— Dharmendra

I really only trust my own feelings when I am writing something.

— Simon Amstell

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way…

— Seamus Heaney

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

— Lois Lowry