Darling Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

Oh, what company good poets are!

— Jose Marti

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I…

— Adrienne Rich

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise…

— Bernard Cornwell

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many…

— John Cooper Clarke

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

— Caterina Fake

The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.

— Jim Jarmusch

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate…

— Francesco Clemente

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek