Bloggers Quote by Seth Godin

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much…

— Robert Frost

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

— Louise Closser Hale

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

— Billy Collins

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

— Anne Sexton

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

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

— Wole Soyinka