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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

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

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.