Coexist Quote by Gregory Pardlo

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get…

— Woodrow Wilson

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most…

— Robert Frost

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

— Thom Gunn

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies…

— Harold E. Varmus

When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.

— Umar

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

— Kathleen Raine

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

“Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have standard sentences…

— Anonymous

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the…

— Germaine Greer

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening…

— Margaret Atwood