Best poem Quote by James Arthur

I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel…

— Barbara Hamby

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream…

— Paul Gauguin

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

— Leonard Cohen

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

— Robert Penn Warren

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

— Dorianne Laux

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -…

— e. e. cummings

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone…

— Franz Wright

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

— Omari Hardwick