Believe Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

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

— Yehuda Amichai

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

— T. S. Eliot

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

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

— John Fowles

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Nathalie Sarraute