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  • All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. -- Umberto Eco
  • I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry. -- Jonas Mekas
  • Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. -- C. S. Lewis
  • All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. -- Oscar Wilde
  • One can be well-bred and write bad poetry -- Moliere
  • Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope. -- Edward Abbey
  • I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes. -- Kit Harington
  • It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. -- Peter Steele
  • For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. -- Jacques Derrida
  • That's a rather flippant quote "drinking and writing bad poetry" from me. I mean, I said it, but I was doing other stuff too. I certainly didn't manage the full stretch of four years. -- Dylan Moran
  • The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain. -- Patrick Rothfuss
  • Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet. -- Charles Bukowski
  • What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a stuffed animal as you're ever going to get from a Spartan like Logan Quinn. -- Jennifer Estep
  • Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry -- William Empson
  • In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things. -- Sarah Kay
  • Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't. -- David Sedaris
  • No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. -- Felix Dennis
  • Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. -- Cheryl Hines
  • Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. -- Elvis Costello
  • I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. -- James Laughlin
  • You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. -- Lena Dunham
  • The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. -- Natasha Trethewey
  • one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid -- Charles Bukowski
  • Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. -- Edward Abbey
  • We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look. -- Ali Smith
  • Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. -- Adrienne Rich
  • Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. -- James Dickey
  • All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad. -- Patricia MacLachlan
  • Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. -- Osbert Sitwell
  • If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. -- Archibald MacLeish
  • Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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