Audacity Quote by Edward Hirsch

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long…

— Robert Frost

“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”

— Angus Wilson

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what…

— Charles Simic

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very…

— Edward Hirsch

“Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or performed any relationship that…

— Robert Graves

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

“it is the violent poetry of times, written int he bllod of the youth”

— linda mendoza

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

— Dennis Potter