Boring Quote by Norman MacCaig

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

— Robert Giroux

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

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity…

— Randall Jarrell

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

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 think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for…

— Edward Hirsch

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

— Nick Flynn

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

— Nick Flynn