How Quote by Derek Walcott

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

— Mahmoud Darwish

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels…

— John Ciardi

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

— Barbara Holland