The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide

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

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert