Life Quote by Nancy Moser

“but take away his poems and what does he have left? He wants to write more poems, enough to fill half the world.”

— Nachoem M Wijnberg

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“There are many things you can lie your way through; poetry is not one of them.”

— Nicole Lyons

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski