Best Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

— Anonymous

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography…

— Joseph Brodsky

That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order…

— Edward Hirsch

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

— Erica Jong

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky…

— Janet Fitch

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer