Poet Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

— M.L. Shanahan

“I'm not a poet and I know it.”

— Steph

“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows one to…

— Russell Edson

“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

“A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they’ve lived or barely lived through.”

— Jason E. Hodges

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

— Edith Sitwell

“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way…

— Will Willingham

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

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

— Lailah Gifty Akita