Courses Quote by Karl Shapiro

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

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

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

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

— Anonymous

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

Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to…

— Miller Williams

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons