Poet Quotes

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I write from my heart, perhaps that’s why my words often bleed.

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

May my children never read this.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don’t like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can’t write.

When I look at you, I see the moon – I wish you could see that you’re every poets muse.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Writing is my job, and I am employed by god.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.