Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

- Donald Hall

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

- Federico Fellini

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

- F. Sionil Jose

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

- Ellen Forney

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

- Edmund Waller

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

- Ernest Hemingway

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

- Edward Hirsch

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

- Diane Wakoski

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

- Dougray Scott

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

- Delmore Schwartz

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

- Allen Ginsberg

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

- Daniel Radcliffe

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

- Craig Brown

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

- Christopher Morley

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

- Bernie Taupin

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

- Buzz Aldrin

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

- Ben Harper

Poets are born, not paid.

- Addison Mizner

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

- Adrian Mitchell

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

- Anne Sexton