Balance Quote by Sam Hamill

We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a…

— Sam Hamill

We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that…

— Derek Walcott

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not…

— Thomas L. Dumm

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are…

— Billy Collins

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy…

— Andre Naffis-Sahely

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

— Anne Sexton

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche