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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

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

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.