What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
