Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
Robert Adamson
I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
Christina Aguilera
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Yehuda Amichai
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
Aristophanes
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of... →
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire