Feds Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

— KRS-One

Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

I'm a poet.

— Rajon Rondo

“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in."…

— Donald Hall

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf