Certain Quote by T. S. Eliot

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

— Stephen Spender

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Truly great poems never do, somehow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on…

— Jack Kerouac

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

— Anonymous