Awake Quote by Robert Hass

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

— A. R. Ammons

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent -…

— John Crowe Ransom

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

— Robert Frost

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

— Dan Simmons

The advantage of the one writing about hearts of poets: he can hear them beating even in his sleep.

— Mariana Fulger

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

— Allen Tate

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

— Horace

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you…

— Jane Hirshfield