Humor Quote by Chocolate Waters

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

“Poems arrive ready to begin. Poets are only the transportation.”

— Mary Oliver

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

— William Butler Yeats

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

“A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.”

— Ben Johnson

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

— Nicole Brossard

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

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

— Brandon Gene Petit