Poetry Quote by Grace Paley

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

— Amber Tamblyn

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are…

— Billy Collins

I've no idea what the attitude to me is among serious poets.

— Tim Key

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

— Peter Davison

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

— Samuel Beckett

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

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

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Joseph Campbell

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato