Able Quote by Eyvind Johnson

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

— Anais Nin

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

— Philip Pullman

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter…

— William Carlos Williams

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

— Philip Levine

“The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into…

— Gu Cheng

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is…

— Norman Cousins

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the…

— Washington Irving

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi