Being trusted Quote by Samuel Johnson

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

— Neil Gaiman

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and…

— John Ciardi

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

The finest poetry was first experience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot

Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?

— Alice Munro

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

— Greg Bear

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

— Virginia Woolf