Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. (Quote by - Augustus William)

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. (Quote by - Wallace Stevens)

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. (Quote by - Robert Graves)

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. (Quote by - Charles Simic)