Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was…

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision…

— Audre Lorde

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a…

— Nikki Giovanni

A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.”

— Rainbow Rowell

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…

— Eavan Boland

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

“Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..." Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?”

— Jostein Gaarder

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James

“When in my early twenties, I first heard Ghalib’s ‘Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi’ in Jagjit Singh’s rendition for the TV serial Ghalib, I was astounded!…

— Arundhati Ghosh

“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on Judgement Day…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God…

— Mary Oliver

“It was time enough for whole lives to have been led and misled... time enough, as the poet said, to murder and create --…

— Amor Towles

I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was…

— Scott Glenn

“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The”

— Barbara W. Tuchman