Born Quote by Benjamin Franklin

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you…

— Socrates

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

— Herbert Spencer

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

“am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation”),”

— Edward Hirsch

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the…

— Allen Tate

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar