Assured Quote by John Burnside

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

“And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a…

— T.S.Eliot

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.”

— John Ciardi

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

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

— W.H. Auden

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell