Different Quote by Wislawa Szymborska

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

Poets love me. They embrace me. Actually, I don't really know many poets. But I used to go to a lot of poetry gigs…

— Tim Key

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

— Honore de Balzac

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close…

— Anne Carson

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written…

— Stephen Dunn

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny…

— Tracy K. Smith

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Caterina Fake

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

One must love a poet on its own terms.

— Paul Gray