Life Quote by Russell Edson

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

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

— M.L. Shanahan

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.”

— Nicholas Trandahl

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”

— Wallace Stegner

“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”

— D.A. Botta

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph