Poets Talk Quotes
- Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
- Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a… — Norman Maclean
- The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness.… — Jean-Claude Izzo
- Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. — Robert Frost