Creator Quote by Edmund Clarence Stedman

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

— Patrick Rothfuss

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

— Alfred Austin

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni