Poetic Fame Quotes

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all.

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

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

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

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, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.

Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.