Honesty Quote by Steph

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

— M.L. Shanahan

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I am an i poet.”

— E.E. Cummings

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“I'm a poet and you are poetry”

— Dylan Anders Porter

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

“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

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney

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

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong