Alive Quote by Randall Jarrell

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he…

— Lady Gregory

“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written…

— John Pudney

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

— Seamus Heaney

whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie