Boundaries Quote by Katy Lederer

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

— Rupi Kaur

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— John Updike

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some…

— Anonymous

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

— Anne Waldman

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

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

“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

There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Mary Oliver