Action Quote by Aristotle

As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and…

— Aristotle

"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."

— Edith Sitwell

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

“After an insight occurs, one must check it out to see if the connections genuinely make sense. The painter steps back from the canvas…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“... the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet turns away…

— Helen Humphreys

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are…

— V. S. Pritchett

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

— Alice Oswald

“The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain.…

— Wallace Stevens

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

— Edward Hirsch

The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where…

— William Carlos Williams