Above Quote by Andrew Motion

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's…

— Thom Gunn

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean,…

— Jane Campion

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

— Irving Layton

“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in their work,…

— Ronald Carter

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be…

— Andrew Motion

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise…

— Bernard Cornwell

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

Poets love me. They embrace me. Actually, I don't really know many poets. But I used to go to a lot of poetry gigs…

— Tim Key

You have no idea how poet you are until you meet love.

— Anonymous

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the…

— Virginia Woolf

I love romantic poetry.

— Richard Dawkins