"To be a poet is a condition,..." - Quote by Robert Frost
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
More by Robert Frost
More on Poetry
“The freedom of poetic license.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”