Art Quote by Edith Sitwell

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“The poet is individual—he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not.”

— Walt Whitman

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see”

— Marwa Helal

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.”

— Ally Condie

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers