Kind Quote by Sheila Heti

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James

the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be...

— Bruce Springsteen

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain