Dear Quote by Peter Bichsel

My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up…

— William Stafford

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

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

— Sheila Heti

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go…

— James Laughlin