Beck and call Quote by Anthony Hecht

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not…

— Patrick Kavanagh

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch