Advise Quote by Rita Dove

To be poet laureate is to try to spread the love and the accessibility of poetry to young people.

— Jacqueline Woodson

As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.

— Robert Hass

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

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the…

— Andrew Motion

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

— Adrienne Rich

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

— Rita Dove

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

— Natasha Trethewey

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

— W. H. Auden

The laureateship [of U.S. Children's Poet] has brought me a couple of appealing contracts, including my first anthology, the 200-poem The National Geographic Book…

— J. Patrick Lewis

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

— Amanda Gorman