Book Quote by Nikki Giovanni

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— John Fowles

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

— John Fowles

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course…

— T. S. Eliot

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

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

— Yehuda Amichai

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

— Northrop Frye

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

— William Butler Yeats

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

— Anonymous

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous