About Quote by Helen Vendler

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“You never know that. I don't know it; Robert Lowell doesn't know it; John Berryman didn't know it; and Shakespeare probably didn't know it.…

— James Dickey

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz