Men Quote by Stephen Dobyns

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Was ever poet so trusted before?

— Samuel Johnson

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©”

— David J Delaney

There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different…

— Ted Kooser

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country…

— Sharon Olds

Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer.

— Stephen Dobyns

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for…

— Edward Hirsch

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde