Poet Quote by Bob Dylan

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

— e. e. cummings

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone…

— Franz Wright

“I'm very much aware I can't think. I'm a poet.”

— Rene Daumal

“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research…

— Natasha Trethewey

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same…

— Maximilian Schell

“Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl…

— Eileen Myles

I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I…

— Terry Tempest Williams