Bob Quote by Steve Earle

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

“Here's how I used to think you made a book: a poet comes along, mouth half open, inspired, then suddenly the idiot bursts into…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

— Richard F. Thomas

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he…

— Anonymous

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

“These names mean nothing to Perowne. But he understands how eminent poets, like senior consultants, live in a watchful, jealous world in which reputations…

— Ian McEwan

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When…

— Leonard Cohen