Collective responsibility Quote by Eavan Boland

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Joseph Campbell

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

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

— Joseph Campbell

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

— Dorianne Laux

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

I think it is our job as poets to refuse the terms that society so often sets for usefulness. That, for instance, is what…

— Matthew Zapruder

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

“I believe in being a poet in all moments of life. Being a poet means being human. I know some poets whose daily behavior…

— Forough Farrokhzad