Famous writers Quote by Robert Morgan

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

Poetry can explain individuals to ourselves, and change our attitudes, and help us see the complexity of the world, but the kind of poetry…

— Stephen Burt

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

— Mary Oliver

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography…

— Joseph Brodsky

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think…

— Thom Gunn

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to…

— Sandra Cisneros

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

— Robert Morgan