Poet Quotes

Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Erica Jong
- Words
- Person
- Language
The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

Theodore Roethke
- Heart
- Poet

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

Diane Ackerman
- Poet
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Poet
- Creator
- Proportion