The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Don't send me a text message. I seldom respond to them. Use poetry.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to pray, but I’ve seen them do it on TV; kneeling by a bed in nightgowns, hands woven… — Jessica Bell Copy Share Image
I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things .… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn’t yet published a book of poems he seemed to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
