Attention Quote by Martha Ronk

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

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

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have…

— James Arthur

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

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to…

— Rae Armantrout