Because Quote by Robert Adamson

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write…

— John Fowles

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

— Charles Bukowski

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

— Anonymous

“Once in a while, though, he went on binges. He would sneak into bookstores or libraries, lurk around the racks where the little magazines…

— Margaret Atwood

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand…

— Steve Earle

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can…

— Peter Ackroyd

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they…

— Helen Dunmore

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway, I suppose,…

— Tim Key

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

— George Orwell

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

— Nicholas Sparks

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa