Lines Quote by Diane Wakoski

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How…

— Connie Wanek

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended…

— Edward Hirsch

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to…

— Sarah Kay

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

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 don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover…

— Rita Dove

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth