Doe Quote by Marcus Aurelius

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

— Anonymous

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him, instead of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“His is a poetry devoid of any poetry.”

— Pietros Maneos

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

— Joseph Addison

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

— Anonymous

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous