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My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly work. — Marilynne Robinson

Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson

A poet can always find something good to write about. — Colleen Houck

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. — Anthony Hecht

Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart! — Saru Singhal

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet! — Jack Gleeson

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. — Alysia Harris

Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good. — Janet Fitch

Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. — T. S. Eliot

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out. — William Butler Yeats

Good poets borrow, great poets steal — T. S. Eliot

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. — Ogden Nash

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. — Karl Shapiro

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. — Imogen Cunningham

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things. — Stephen Vincent Benet

Sometimes it is good to breach the rules
so as to achieve an end,
Yet keep an edge and not break or bend. — Mira Midha

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field

The poet is individual - he is complete in himself: the others are as good as he; only he sees it, and they do not. — Walt Whitman

We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. — Rin Chupeco

I've made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good; how sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all. — C.J. Heck

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast. — Mahatma Gandhi

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact. — Fernando Pessoa

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. — Orson Welles

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. — William Shenstone

Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one? — Friedrich Nietzsche

The starving poet business is no good nowadays. — Henrik Ibsen

How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. — Bertolt Brecht

Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend,
With whom my muse began, with who shall end. — Alexander Pope

A good poet's made as well as born. — Ben Jonson

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy. — Sherman Alexie

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

A good poet feels what his community feels.
Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler

No bad man can be a good poet. — Boris Pasternak

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers. — Saru Singhal

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty

Oh, what company good poets are! — Jose Marti

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin