Communication Quote by Robert E. Howard

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“We are all poets, really.”

— Walter Lowenfels

“A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don’t mean a damn thing.”

— José Gouveia

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound…

— N.M. Lombardi

“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.”

— Salmon Rushdie

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie