Poetry Quote by Anonymous

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

— Frederick Seidel

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

— Ho Chi Minh

“Poems are bullshit unless they are teeth or trees or lemons piled on a step. Or black ladies dying of men leaving nickel hearts…

— Amiri Baraka

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.”

— Joseph McElroy

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to…

— Sam Hamill

I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power…

— Frederick Seidel

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

— Tom Stoppard

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

— Dejan Stojanovic