And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“This is partly because few teenagers are instinctively good poets. It’s about as common as cats being instinctively friendly.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance.… — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
