Class Quote by David Allan Coe

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out…

— Denise Duhamel

I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a…

— Nikki Giovanni

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could…

— Chad Harbach

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

— Norman MacCaig

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a…

— Rita Dove

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

— Phoebe Snow

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem…

— Tony Harrison

I want to be maybe the modern-day Billy Graham.

— Mike Lindell

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts…

— Joy Covey

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency,

— Eugene McCarthy

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni