The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
Paul Engle
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or... →
Robert Fitzgerald
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
Janet Frame
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Theophile Gautier
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide