Boring Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per…

— Selima Hill

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I can't really…

— Doseone

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines…

— Robert Pinsky

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

— Oliver Goldsmith

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

— Rita Dove

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so…

— W. H. Auden

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers