Babies Quote by Sharyn McCrumb

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

— Doug Stanhope

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

Poets are born, not made

— American Proverb

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

— Julian Barnes

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

— Richard Eyre

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem…

— May Sarton

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

— H. L. Mencken