Birth Quote by William Cowper

A good poet's made as well as born.

— Ben Jonson

Poets are born, not paid.

— Addison Mizner

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value…

— Plato

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them.

— Andrei Voznesensky

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence,…

— Isaac D'Israeli