Inspirational Quote by Albert Einstein

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

— Anne Waldman

Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance…

— Matthew Arnold

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

— Cheryl Hines

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

— Milan Kundera

Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the…

— Hetty King

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

— Elizabeth Bishop