Choices Quote by J. D. Salinger

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

— Philip Larkin

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

— May Sarton

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous

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

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”

— Céline Sciamma

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.”

— David J Delaney

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of…

— Multatuli

“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