Born Quote by John Burroughs

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

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

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.

— Thomas Carlyle

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

— B. F. Skinner

“Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can free those feelings we keep in the pent heart”

— Jeffrey Moore

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

— Honore de Balzac

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and…

— E. O. Wilson

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas…

— Michael Longley

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli