A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
