Handwriting Quote by Jean Cocteau

True poets don't write their thoughts with a pen. They release the ink that flows from within their heart.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

— Irving Stone

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul…

— Aphra Behn

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and…

— Paul Gauguin

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not…

— Anonymous

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has…

— Kathleen Norris

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all…

— Lauren Oliver

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace