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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

If you're a poet and you're using rhyme, rhyme generates ideas. If you're a songwriter and you're using melody and words together, they bounce off each other in interesting ways that you couldn't get otherwise, because you do things unexpectedly.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

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.

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Inside every man there is a poet who died young.

In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.