Poetry Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“when you're a poet you can dish out whatever's on your mind and you don't have to apologize for it”

— Shannon Lynette

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.”

— José Gouveia

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das

“Truly great poems never do, somehow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

“True poetry is embarrassing.”

— Julien Torma

“But often it's the inexact, the awful, the mistaken linguistic turn that manages to say the right thing because it unmoors us from our…

— Tin House Books

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels