Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical…

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and…

— Annie Baker

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.”

— Harold Bloom

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

— C. S. Lewis

Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.

— Elliott Colla

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…

— Lena Dunham

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

— Moliere

“So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul…

— T.J. Klune

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

“Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday youre sitting…

— Josie Bloss

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

— Kit Harington

“He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking on a…

— Jay Kristoff