Giving Quote by Paul Celan

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see…

— Stefan Zweig

In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

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

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Lucille Clifton

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that…

— Theodor Adorno

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind…

— Robert Morgan

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside…

— Plato

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

— Yehuda Amichai

Poetry cannot be translation

— Samuel Johnson

“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