Concern Quote by Edward Hirsch

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay…

— Nikki Giovanni

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but…

— John Keats

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

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

— Edward Hirsch

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

— Shane McCrae

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

— Amiri Baraka

My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire…

— Edward Hirsch

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a…

— Christian Wiman