People Quote by Laurence Olivier

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

— Henry Latham Doherty

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

— Anne Stevenson

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

— Jay-Z

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

— Norman MacCaig

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings,…

— Rhys Ifans

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

— George Henry Lewes