“Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.”
“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”
“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
“It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.”
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
“In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.”