Academic Quote by Adrienne Rich

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in…

— James Arthur

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

— James Broughton

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

— Mark Strand

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…

— Maxine Kumin

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams