Bad Poetry Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

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
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
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
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
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C.S. Lewis
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
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. — Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde
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
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco
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
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: