Born Quote by Charles Bukowski

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

— Audre Lorde

At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.

— Franz Grillparzer

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.”

— Carl Sandburg

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

— Carl Sandburg

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

All men are poets at heart.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld