Belong Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

— Mick McCarthy

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”

— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

“The great artists and poets may have gone, but football is here.”

— Phil Ball

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

— Robert Frost

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh…

— Soren Kierkegaard

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if…

— Archibald MacLeish

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether…

— Peter Davison

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does…

— Arthur Hopcraft