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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… — Ernest Hemingway
• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — 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… — David Sedaris
• I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Patrick Rothfuss

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