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In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody…

— Bennett Cerf

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

— Isaac Barrow

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that…

— Anthony Hecht

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

— Melvin B. Tolson

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.”

— George Orwell

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer…

— James A. McDougall

Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around.

— Elizabeth Shaw Melville

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

— Annie Dillard

“Next, there was a poet turned to science, and a second poet, and another. And him, the thick turned thin, a starling in my…

— Tina May Hall