Books Quote by Nathalie Sarraute

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

— Nikki Giovanni

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Hirsch

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in…

— Robert Morgan