Attention Quote by Robert Lowell

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language…

— Mark Strand

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me…

— Howard Nemerov

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives…

— Thomas Hood

Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their…

— R. S. Thomas

“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I…

— Mary Oliver

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

— Mason Cooley

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,

— Alister E. McGrath

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

— Aulus Gellius