Body Quote by Leonard Cohen

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and…

— William Wordsworth

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

— Billy Cannon

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

— W. H. Auden

A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

— Victor Hugo

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it.…

— Rodney Crowell

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry -…

— Subramanya Bharathi

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and…

— Orson F. Whitney

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

— Robert Graves