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The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad. — Randall Jarrell

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. — Tony Buzan

I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us. — Christina Strigas

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems. — Robert Frost

And I'm not a poet: but never despair!
I'll madly live the poems I shall never write. — Aldous Huxley

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. — Amiri Baraka

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization. — Wallace Stegner

Every poet puts a part of their soul in each of their poems.
— Jennifer Owen

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love. — Charlotte Eriksson

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

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat. — John Ritter

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack. — Ho Chi Minh

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore De Balzac

Cosmos and its stars; poet and his poetry! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. — Norman Lock

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face! — George Eliot

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master. — Matsuo Basho

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem. — Karen Tei Yamashita

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them. — Christina Strigas

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

He kisses like a poet. Like he's writing poems on my lips. — Veronica Rossi

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. — Randall Jarrell

poems are small moments of enlightenment — Natalie Goldberg

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

There is no poetry without want. Desperate want. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed. — Roberto Bolano

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy — Christina Rossetti

A versifier's poem is born by the sound; a poet's sound is born by the poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Put a girl in
moonlight
and tell only truths
and every man
becomes a poet. — Atticus Poetry

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

Poems are crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. — Pierre Reverdy

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page. — Jenim Dibie

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni