I don't read poetry for pleasure. I read to be terrified in a way. And people who terrify me from their size and the grandeur of their imagination now are people like Pasternak and Neruda, a lot of Latin-American poets, Lowell - very few English poets - Ted Hughes a little...very few English poets now in fact (1968)

The most excellent of modern poets, ... whom I reverence next to Virgil.

[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ho-xuan-huong Ho Xuan Huong] at the Poetry Foundation

The Prophet Muhammad is said to have called Imru’ al-Qays "the leader of the poets into hellfire.

[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cecilia-vicuna Poetry Foundation page]

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

[http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/li_ching_chao/poems Li Ching Chao Poems and Poetry] at Famous Poets and Poems

The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.

Stand here with me...with the stars and hills as witness and in their presence consecrate your life and talent, your song and your speech, your thought and your dream, to the motherland. O poet see visions from hill –tops and spread abroad the message of hope to the toilers of the valleys.

I always wonder why some poets become "international"? I guess they were tremendously good. I think of people like Pablo Neruda. He crossed all sorts of geographical lines. But he was also from that place, located in that place.