Likes Quote by Tom Glazer

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

— Sheila Heti

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

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

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

— Kevin Powers

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is…

— Leonard Cohen

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin