982 Quotes About Poet

A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.

The early word catches the poem.

I feel whole when I write. I feel like a fraud when I don’t write.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

A poet adds the awe factor to our ordinary perceptions.

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.

Sometimes I feel like I belong in another century when I write poetry...

BelieveB.ravery isn’t something you’re born withE.veryone is afraidL.ife isn’t always going to come easyI.t will tear you down some days, butE.ven when you feel smallV.alleys of hope will always run throughE.very doubt building inside of you