Circle Quote by Tim Key

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

— Philip Larkin

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry…

— Andrew Motion

“The streets were all named after poets - Wordsworth Lane, Shelley Close, Keats Rise - no doubt chosen by the building company's marketing department.…

— Gail Honeyman

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they…

— James Welch

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of…

— Julia Quinn

I was the landlady of the Birdcage pub on Columbia Road flower market for four years and that was intensely London.

— Andi Oliver

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in…

— Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The…

— Robert Frost

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl…

— Edward Hirsch