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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

— W. H. Auden

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— J.D. Salinger

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

— e. e. cummings

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at…

— Mark Twain

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

Great poets are great copy editors.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Wallace Stegner

“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of other artists,…

— Camile Pagli

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde