Born Quote by Grace Cavalieri

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish…

— Rodney Crowell

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

— Wole Soyinka

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

— Eminem

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

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

— John Fowles

Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas…

— Michael Longley

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin