Bread Quote by Rita Dove

My fave poet

— Anonymous

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

— Nikki Giovanni

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

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

— Randall Jarrell

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my…

— Matthea Harvey

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

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

— Robert Giroux

Poets love me. They embrace me. Actually, I don't really know many poets. But I used to go to a lot of poetry gigs…

— Tim Key