Assembly Quote by Rollo May

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is…

— Babette Deutsch

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

— Rollo May

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

— Edith Sitwell

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving…

— Eileen Myles

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of…

— Virginia Woolf

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's…

— Donovan

We need help, the poet reckoned.

— Edward Dorn