Character Quote by Edward Hirsch

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in…

— Sarah Kay

With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of…

— Joseph Brodsky

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

— Nikki Giovanni

“So many times in a single day we glimpse a view beyond the apparent. Write those moments down. They might not speak to you…

— Joy Williams

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative.

— Edward Hirsch

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many…

— Plato

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

— John Fowles

There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange -…

— Joan Larkin

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

— Howard Jacobson