Decided Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one.

— David Berman

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and…

— Jonathan Swift

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you…

— Adrienne Rich

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

“As the eighteenth- century author Jonathan Swift wrote, you cannot reason someone out of something he has not been reasoned into.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only…

— Jim Jarmusch

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are,…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— J.D. Salinger

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery