Bad Poet Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. — Edward Dahlberg
• I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. — Ogden Nash
• Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
• I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska
• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into… — Peter S. Beagle
• If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing… — Walker Percy

Who Wrote These Bad Poet Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Bad Poet Quotes as follows:

• 2 Bad Poet Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Edward Dahlberg
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Ogden Nash
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Wislawa Szymborska
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Peter S. Beagle
• 1 Bad Poet Quote by Walker Percy