Byron Quote by Jane Campion

“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in their work,…

— Ronald Carter

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

— John B. S. Haldane

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above…

— Andrew Motion

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet…

— Alan Moore

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for…

— Tony Kushner

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people…

— Ellen Bass

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was…

— Robert Adamson