Exciting Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

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

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Technology's great, but you can only be as good in technology as your people are.

— Gillian Tans

As I get older, I recognize that my thinking about poetry may or may not have anything actively to do with my actual work…

— Robert Creeley

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 may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny