Poet Quote by Bruce Springsteen

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

— Sheila Heti

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

— Gary D. Schmidt

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

— K.J. Parker

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

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

— John Fowles