Poetic Genre Quotes

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

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!

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.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

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

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

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.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

The American public does not know poets exist.