Poetry Quote by Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,

— Marie Howe

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in…

— Edward Hirsch

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or…

— Franz Wright

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca