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

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

The poet...nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.

He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry — it is he who is a poet.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.

I am not asked out to drinking parties and have never been in a Rose Street pub. I can't be a poet.

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity — he is continually informing — and filling some other body.

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.

There is no such thing as a silent poem.