Find Quote by John Cooper Clarke

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

— Kenneth Koch

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

— Norman MacCaig

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

— Edward Hirsch

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible…

— Adelia Prado

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one,…

— Diane Wakoski

“If poetry is outta style then I wish to bring it back”

— Justin Bienvenue

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

“Don't imagine that the art of poetry is any simpler than the art of music, or that you can please the expert before you…

— Ezra Pound

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky