Individual Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining,…

— John Drinkwater

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

— Virginia Woolf

“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver