Class Quote by May Sarton

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

— May Sarton

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

— Sheila Heti

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry…

— Adrienne Rich

“Whether if you're a beginner poet or an experienced poet, poets just as other writers would like to have more readers enjoy their work.…

— Reynaldo Casison

I'm not a poet. So the writing process is a difficult one for me.

— Billy Squier

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

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

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

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

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the…

— William Faulkner