Known Quote by Ernesto Cardenal

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

— Bob Dylan

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

I'm not a great poetry fan.

— Rupert Everett

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

— Fady Joudah

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell