Challenges Quote by Mary Oliver

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

— James Laughlin

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended…

— Edward Hirsch

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

— Kevin Young

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When…

— Gaston Bachelard

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find…

— Michael Longley

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was…

— Robert Adamson