Because Quote by Joseph Brodsky

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

— Wallace Stegner

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude…

— Joseph Brodsky

Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

— Arnold Adoff

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden