Last words Quote by John Green

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

— Sam Shepard

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

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

“I had never previously met him, but I had seen him and knew his name well, because he was one of those persons who,…

— Anthony Powell

“I've traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've…

— Janice James

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

— David Byrne

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative…

— Anonymous

“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still…

— Robert Frost

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous