Declaring Quote by Billy Cannon

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry -…

— Subramanya Bharathi

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

— Marguerite Yourcenar