Flower Quote by Osho

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph

A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is…

— George M. Church

“What if everyone knew what a flower could do?”

— Katherine Brickley

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the…

— Allen Tate

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

— Wallace Stegner

“I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.”

— Kate Bernheimer

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as…

— David McDonald