Drawing Quote by Irving Stone

In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a…

— Anonymous

Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine…

— Edith Sitwell

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word,…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even then, even…

— Yu Hsuan-Chi

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool,…

— Jon McGregor

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would…

— Jim Hodges

“Most of us have only one story to tell. I don’t mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are…

— Julian Barnes

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our…

— Lynn Novick

Every story needs to be worth telling.

— Vera Nazarian

“-we wish you-" "-a tale-" "-worth telling." "Not luck?" asked Vikram. The gate heaved with wet laughter. "-what good is-" "-such a thing.”

— Roshani Chokshi