Big idea Quote by Bruce Sterling

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry…

— Anonymous

coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best…

— David Mermin

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

— Nick Flynn

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

— Sonia Sanchez

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish