Alertness Quote by John Keats

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

— Robert Frost

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,…

— Ellen Glasgow

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

— Anonymous

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

— Robert Graves

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

“Love doesn’t make you a poet; it makes you poetry.”

— Yarro Rai

Love without passion lacks only poetry

— Juju

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play.…

— Tom Stoppard

That's what poems are for, unlivable love.

— Tess Gallagher

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

— Joy Harjo