Friendship Quote by Dan Simmons

“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is…

— Dan Simmons

“To be a true poet is to become God.”

— Dan Simmons

“Only poetry isn't shit.”

— Roberto Bolano

“True poetry is embarrassing.”

— Julien Torma

“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.”

— José Gouveia

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

— Socrates

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

“I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers…

— Plato

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary