Admire Quote by C.D. Wright

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest…

— Leonard Cohen

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

— James Fenton

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway, I suppose,…

— Tim Key

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

— Marie Corelli

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

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