Best poet Quote by Harriet Monroe

We must listen to poets.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock…

— Jim Carroll

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

— Vanna Bonta

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

— Saul Williams

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey