American poetry Quote by Christian Wiman

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his…

— Christian Wiman

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living…

— Marilyn Hacker

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears).…

— Frank O'Hara

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

“most of these American poets pushing and hustling their talents playing at greatness. poet (?): that word needs re- defining. when I hear that…

— Charles Bukowski

The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary American poets…

— John Burnside

If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City. So therefore,…

— Ted Kooser

Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to…

— Conrad Aiken

In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current…

— Stephen Burt

Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic,…

— Stephen Burt

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know…

— Sam Hamill

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson