Anonymous-authorship Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

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

— J.D. Salinger

“(I also occasionally write poems, after first explaining carefully to the audience and myself that I am not a poet and this is not…

— T. Kingfisher

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.”

— John Keats

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

— David Carradine

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“A poet is for poetry Not for you and me.”

— Rahman Mostafiz