Aware Quote by Rene Daumal

“I try to be aware that whenever I think of myself as a peer, I mentally catch myself,” says Mr. Krulwich, who is in…

— Anonymous

'Mr. Robot' has made me so much more aware of everything. I have to think about it.

— Carly Chaikin

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I…

— Rita Dove

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone…

— Franz Wright

“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”

— Linda Wagner-Martin

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research…

— Natasha Trethewey

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same…

— Maximilian Schell

“Allen Ginsberg asked me to sign his book. I must've stood there for five minutes drawing a complete blank. Hi Allen, from one howl…

— Eileen Myles

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

— Victoria Chang

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan