Dangerous Quote by Wendy Cope

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet…

— Alan Moore

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

— Billy Collins

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they…

— Helen Dunmore

If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

— Dan Simmons

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway, I suppose,…

— Tim Key

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell