America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. Rebecca Harding Davis
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. Francesca Lia Block
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. Margaret Atwood
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Ernest Hemingway
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss. Dan Quisenberry