Declaring Quote by Billy Cannon

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary.…

— Patti Smith

“What is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed…

— Kierkegaard

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

Whoever would understand the poet Must go into the poet's country. [Ger., Wer den Dichter will verstehen Muss in Dichters Lande gehen.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf…

— Ameen Rihani

“Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that…

— Naeem Murr

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I am a poet. I am very fond of bananas. I am bananas. I am very fond of a poet. I am a poet…

— Wendy Cope

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

— Jack Prelutsky

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

— Yehuda Amichai

To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet

— Eugene Delacroix

“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand…

— Virginia Woolf