Bureaucracy Quote by Gore Vidal

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

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

— Bob Dylan

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen

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

“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of…

— Leonard Cohen

I'm not a great poetry fan.

— Rupert Everett

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

— J.D. Salinger

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

Its not easy to write a poem about a poem.

— Dejan Stojanovic

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute