In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
Stan Brakhage
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
The American public does not know poets exist.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
Poets are born, not paid.
Addison Mizner
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
Robert Morgan
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Paul Muldoon