Found Quote by Tim Key

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 are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets love me. They embrace me. Actually, I don't really know many poets. But I used to go to a lot of poetry gigs…

— Tim Key

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

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

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

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

— Anonymous

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended…

— Edward Hirsch