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- No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which… — Peter Ackroyd
- Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as fascinating as… — Stephen Burt
- Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work… — John Hollander
- He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi
- Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. — Salvatore Quasimodo
- There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains… — Unknown Author
- I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn
- I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom… — Hunter S. Thompson
- When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater
- Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his… — Alfred North Whitehead
- Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory