Broads Quote by Henry David Thoreau

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

— John Milton

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

— Alan Bold

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to…

— Jane Kenyon

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato