Believe Quote by K.J. Parker

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

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

— John Fowles

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

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

— John Fowles