Interest Quote by Shane McCrae

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

— Muhammad Iqbal

My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read…

— Lucia Perillo

My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

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

— Mary Oliver

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

— Christina Aguilera

Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them…

— John Dufresne

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

I'm only interested in poetry.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch