Quotes About Literature

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

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

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly fresh.