Ghost Quote by Katy Lederer

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there are more…

— Edward Hirsch

I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need…

— Edward Hirsch

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

— David Hume

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

Was ever poet so trusted before?

— Samuel Johnson

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Dan Simmons

“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,”

— Paul Ruffin