Been Quote by Bayard Taylor

In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to…

— Rita Dove

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

— Richard Burton

I was never really a traveler.

— Randy Rainbow

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

— Anonymous

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

— Amanda Gorman

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure…

— Tom Waits

No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an…

— Howard Jacobson

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic…

— Diane Ackerman

I was born to travel and write verse.

— Theophile Gautier