Poetry Quote by Richard Yates

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“Poetry is always naked, you only dress it with words.”

— Himmilicious

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them in ink…

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti