Amount Quote by Billy Collins

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down…

— Kevin Keck

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the…

— Mary Oliver

I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep…

— Elaine Equi

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and…

— Edward Hirsch

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

My work should be seen as poetry.

— Robert Wilson

Protest poetry -- could there be consensus poetry?

— Anonymous

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature…

— Andrew Motion

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

— Albert Goldbarth

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman