Considered Quote by Craig Brown

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

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

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep…

— Wendy Cope

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Joseph Campbell

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

— Grace Cavalieri

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

— Alphonse Daudet

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Archibald MacLeish

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett