It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that... →
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism... →
Edward Dowden
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
David Duchovny
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Carol Ann Duffy
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
Umberto Eco
One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
T. S. Eliot