Age Quote by Clive James

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

— Sheila Heti

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser