I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything. — Allison Hedge Coke Copy Share Image
“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...” — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And… — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
