Exception Quote by Helen Vendler

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for…

— Edward Hirsch

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes…

— Edward Hirsch

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

— Simone Muench

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

— Robert Morgan

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind…

— Robert Morgan

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

— T. S. Eliot

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

— Anonymous