Born Quote by James Broughton

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

— James Broughton

We are born poets. we become orators.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

— Bernie Taupin

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

— R. S. Thomas

“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized…

— J.D. Salinger

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

— John Burroughs

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing has to…

— James Shapiro

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

poets are born knowing the language of angels

— Madeleine L'Engle

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

— Henry Ford

“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.”

— E. Millicent Sowerby

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken…

— Denis Diderot