As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.

I read poetry to save time.

— Marilyn Monroe

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous

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

— Umberto Eco

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

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

“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

“Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken…

— Charlie N. Holmberg

“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