Circus Quote by Gerald Brenan

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

— Joseph Campbell

“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They…

— James P. Carse

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

— Joseph Campbell

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

“Some writers, even some poets, become famous public figures, but writers as such have no social status, in the way that doctors and lawyers,…

— W.H. Auden

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the…

— Peter Davison

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from -…

— Eavan Boland

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

— Horace

As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics.…

— Jerome Rothenberg