Busy Quote by Sharon Olds

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly…

— Victoria Chang

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I know who the great poets are.

— Jack Kerouac

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

— Wole Soyinka

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

— Anonymous

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think…

— Bob Dylan

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

— Babette Deutsch

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets…

— Socrates

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a…

— Edward Hirsch

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

— James Broughton

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath