Poet Quote by Dan Chiasson

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that…

— David Starkey

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

— Cate Marvin

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets,…

— Victoria Chang

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

— Andre Dubus

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

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

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky