Boring Quote by Caroline Kennedy

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist…

— Andrew Motion

...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

— Billy Collins

Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot…

— Thomas M. Disch

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry…

— Edward Hirsch

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan