Felt Quote by Victoria Chang

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because…

— Roger McGough

I've always felt alone and isolated, and living on the West Coast, there's no poetry community out here, and if there is, it's really…

— Victoria Chang

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

— Anonymous

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

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

— Seamus Heaney

“I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you’re always an outsider...”

— Natasha Trethewey

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing…

— Wislawa Szymborska

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly…

— Victoria Chang

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

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

— Richard Grossman