Backward Quote by Nikhil Saluja

“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

— James Joyce

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

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Sheila Heti

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

— James Fenton

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.”

— Atticus

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato