Acceptable Quote by Eyvind Johnson

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or…

— Eyvind Johnson

When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

— Melvin B. Tolson

That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to maintain or…

— Shane McCrae

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more…

— William H. Gass

A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental…

— Randall Jarrell

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

— Edward Hirsch

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

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

— Alfred de Musset

“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.”

— T.S Eliot