Admiration Quote by Anthony Hecht

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who…

— Anthony Hecht

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person…

— J. K. Rowling

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

— Witold Gombrowicz

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people…

— Ellen Bass

“I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe of people…

— Terri Windling

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.

— Edwin Morgan

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a…

— Matthea Harvey

I share my life experiences as a poet with my students. My poetic difficulties, joys, struggles and discoveries. If I read a new poem…

— Dorianne Laux