Eight Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

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

— Wole Soyinka

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that…

— Elizabeth Janeway

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

— William Temple

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