Poetry Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.

— F. Sionil Jose

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Wallace Stegner

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton

Always be a poet, even in prose.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— John Fowles

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his…

— Mark Forsyth

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

— Antonio Machado

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

— Criss Jami

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

— Thomas Carlyle