"Poet is not a copier but a creator." — RMKATTA

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• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed… — 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… — Mark Twain
• Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations,… — 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 can survive everything but a misprint. — Oscar Wilde
• Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think… — William Carlos Williams
• Poetry must be made by all and not by one. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont