Poet Quotes

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Poetically dwells man upon this earth.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

To be an artist is to look at a tragedy and innately see the beauty in it.

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.