Accepted Quote by Allison Joseph

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

— Robert Penn Warren

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about…

— Tony Harrison

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels.…

— Ben Okri

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture…

— Gaston Bachelard

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by…

— Nicholson Baker

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

— Jeffery Deaver

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise…

— A. R. Ammons