Baseball Quote by Robert Frost

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

— Allen Tate

Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to…

— Karl Shapiro

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.

— James Broughton

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

— Jim Jarmusch

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

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

— Wole Soyinka

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can…

— Robert Morgan

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose