Poetry Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

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

— M.L. Shanahan

“But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men…

— Erica Jong

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph

“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is…

— Rodney Compton

“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to achieve a…

— the mag man

“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous

“There's a book of poetry in the lines of my hands that no one wants to read”

— Holly Schindler

“ A Conceit Give me your hand Make room for me to lead and follow you beyond this rage of poetry. Let others have…

— Maya Angelou

“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

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller