Always Quote by Gulzar

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

— Wendy Cope

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

— Stanley Kunitz

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

— Don Van Vliet

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

— Dana Goodyear

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

— Matthea Harvey

I love the sufiana style of writing in Tagore's poetry.

— Gulzar

I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than…

— Eavan Boland

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

— Harold Bloom

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my…

— James Herbert

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.

— Steven Heighton

The Masters is poetry to me.

— Jim Nantz

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop