Poet Quote by James Broughton

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and…

— Orson F. Whitney

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— David J Delaney

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles