Amazed Quote by Debra Dean

“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to be a…

— Matsuo Bashō

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

— Sylvia Plath

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath

“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then to use…

— DragonPoetikFly

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality…

— Ben Lerner

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves