Conscious Quote by Mark Twain

“Poetry is about finding the best way to plagiarize the reader’s ideas, thoughts, emotions, feelings and memories, their past present or future states of…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once, in short,…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Bob Dylan

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years…

— Megan McCafferty

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

— John Donne

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins