America Quote by Rebecca Harding Davis

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

— Ernest Hemingway

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of…

— Philip Sidney

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

— Helen Bevington

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre…

— Paul Theroux

The historical legacy of 'The Best American Poetry' is they've had very few editors who were not white. They've had very few instances where…

— Jenny Zhang

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

— Marilyn Hacker

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

— Francois Mauriac