Detroit Quote by Philip Levine

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives…

— Anonymous

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

— Philip Levine

“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be…

— C.D. Wright

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.…

— Adrian Matejka

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor…

— Victoria Chang

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

— Edward Hirsch