Hundred Quote by Kim Hyesoon

“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...”

— Natasha Trethewey

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear…

— Helen Vendler

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

— Richard Grossman

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

I've often felt like an outsider, not necessarily because I'm Korean, an immigrant, or female. I think writers are odd people.

— Min Jin Lee

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

— Norman MacCaig

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

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

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow