Aliens Quote by T. S. Eliot

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

— T. S. Eliot

One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate…

— Anonymous

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for…

— Edward Hirsch

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

— Anonymous