1940s Quote by Donald Hall

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

— Peter Davison

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

— James Broughton

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

— Andrew Motion

It seems like every ten years there's a book that says that poetry used to be popular, and now it's not, but we really…

— Robert Hass

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks…

— Mark Strand

You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read poetry at…

— Robert Hass

Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country heading towards...I…

— Billy Collins

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott