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• 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Walker Percy

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