Poet Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

— Edmund Wilson

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski