British Quote by Ian Mcewan

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

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

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and…

— Orson F. Whitney

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

— Robert Giroux

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

— Edward Hirsch

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

— Derek Walcott

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger