Dissertation Quote by Frederick Lenz

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

— Krist Novoselic

I really came to literature through poetry.

— Cheryl Strayed

Great poets get their inspiration from nature

— Russyb

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese…

— Robert Morgan

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

— T.S Eliot

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

— Julian Jaynes

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

— Robert Frost

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not…

— Edward Hirsch

I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying the so-called…

— Douglas Florian

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet