Advice Quote by Neil Gaiman

Was ever poet so trusted before?

— Samuel Johnson

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and…

— John Ciardi

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets,…

— Richard Hugo

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool. But you yourself may prove to show it, Every fool is not…

— Alexander Pope

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

— Libba Bray

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles…

— Alysha Speer

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to…

— PG Wodehouse

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a…

— A. R. Ammons