Ada Lovelace Quotes

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

I've written poetry most of my life.

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm interested in any discussion about whether I'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. But I am sure, I want to write great poems. I think every poet should want that.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

I'd kill to be a poet.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.