Enormous Quote by Billy Collins

Poets take themselves very seriously.

— Grace Paley

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are…

— Billy Collins

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

— Amber Tamblyn

“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They…

— James P. Carse

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

— Roger Rees

I've no idea what the attitude to me is among serious poets.

— Tim Key

There is something essential and necessary about the immediacy and democracy of poetry. If you look at the history of literature, poetry is the…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

— Vanna Bonta

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden