Cherish Quote by Stanley Kunitz

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

— Allen Ginsberg

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for…

— Tony Kushner

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them…

— Glen Duncan

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

“What poets, I cried aloud, as one does in the dusk, what poets they were! In a sort of jealousy, I suppose, for our…

— Virginia Woolf

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

— Grace Cavalieri

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke