Alive Quote by Edward Hirsch

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

— Jessica White

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

— Anonymous

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

— Norman MacCaig

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think…

— Bob Dylan