Courses Quote by Mary Oliver

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Time spent with poets is never wasted.

— May Sarton

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

— George Sand

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost