Concentration Quote by e. e. cummings

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

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

— Nicole Brossard

“A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to…

— George Eliot

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or…

— Rene Char

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…

— Selima Hill

A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition…

— Stephen Spender

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena…

— Ivan Turgenev

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell