Bigs Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

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 have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

— Cate Marvin

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

— Anne Sexton

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write…

— Matt Haig

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.

— Dante Basco

I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the…

— Mary Oliver

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively…

— Colin Hay

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe…

— Kenneth Koch

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what…

— Dana Gioia