You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has…

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

“She was one of those exceptional children who do still spend time outside, in solitude. In her case nature represented beauty - and refuge.…

— Richard Louv

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country,…

— Edmund Wilson

“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of Rilke’s manner…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.

— Rita Dove

“Advice to a Young Poet Don’t spend yourself in the small copper coins of complaint and accusation. Don’t answer those in authority, those who…

— Ondra Lysohorsky

“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of him again…

— Franz Kafka

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important…

— Edward Hirsch

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

— Sylvia Plath

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

— Seamus Heaney

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

— Charles Bukowski

When I came back to New York, it was such a joke because I was always referred to as the pure young poet who…

— Jim Carroll

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr