Actress Quote by Grace Zabriskie

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…

— Selima Hill

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

“And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A PUBLISHED Poet? And when you tell…

— Ben Lerner

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

— Mary Timony

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons