America Quote by Sylvia Plath

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

— Joseph Brodsky

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go…

— Knut Hamsun

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am…

— Joseph Brodsky

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who…

— Anthony Hecht

You speak As one who fed on poetry.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the…

— Walt Whitman

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice.…

— Richard Hugo

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

— Jeanette Winterson

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti