Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.