Ireland Quote by Robert Hass

There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet…

— David Biespiel

Now I would say at any given moment in American life, there are probably 45 poets in airplanes vectoring across the country heading towards...I…

— Billy Collins

“In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the…

— Donald Hall

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

— Kenneth Koch

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

— Peter Davison

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.

— James Fenton

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts…

— Joy Covey