Inspirational Quote by Kwame Dawes

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

— Eugenio Montale

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

— Octavio Paz

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were…

— Malik Yusef

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know…

— Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“Mr Rutger cornet de Groot. Never read any American poetry or any other foreign poetry, which is why he always mentions 2 poets as…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders