Black Quote by Robert Morgan

I love Black poets. I love that as a Black girl, I get to participate in that legacy. So that's Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez,…

— Amanda Gorman

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

— Henry David Thoreau

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns

Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough.

— John Simon

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an…

— John Burnside

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

— Eavan Boland

I like Raymond Carver's poetry a lot.

— Gord Downie

There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different…

— Ted Kooser

Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated…

— Forrest Gander

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric…

— Seamus Heaney