Broken Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own…

— John Updike

“The involuntary poetry of one who is not fluent in the language.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

“a few of the principles by which I live: A good gag is worth any amount of time, money and effort; never draw to…

— Annie Dillard

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working…

— Sergio Aragones

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

It is not just shameful for a contemporary American poet to use rhymes, it is unthinkable. It seems banal to him; he fears banality…

— Joseph Brodsky

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society…

— William C. Brown

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

— Billy Collins

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to…

— Claudio Magris

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so…

— Pete Seeger

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

— Robert Morgan