Bad Poetry Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the…
— Harold Bloom
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing…
— David Sedaris
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life…
— Jacques Derrida
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Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
— C.S. Lewis
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more…
— William Empson
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It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.
— Peter Steele
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
— Oscar Wilde
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
— Oscar Wilde
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If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to…
— Anton Chekhov
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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
— Umberto Eco
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The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a…
— Jennifer Estep
Who Wrote These Bad Poetry Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Bad Poetry Quotes as follows: