Chains Quote by Brion Gysin

Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

— Brion Gysin

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

“Words belong to the person who wrote them”

— Malcolm Gladwell

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets play with words to keep themselves sane

— Eyedea

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

— Erica Jong

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit