Oblivion Quote by Philip Levine

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and…

— Joseph Campbell

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

— Stevie Nicks

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life,…

— Isaac Rosenberg

I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have…

— Kenneth Koch

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out…

— Denise Duhamel

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

— Celeste Ng

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being…

— Vikram Seth

I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.

— Felix Dennis