Poet Quote by Jacques Maritain

There’s no preparation for poetry.

— Charles Simic

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

— Philip Larkin

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

— Howard Jacobson

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.

— Dennis Nurkse

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

— Elaine Equi

There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

— Theodor Adorno

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace