Bad Poets Quotes
- Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets. — Kenneth Koch
- Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad… — Richard Dawkins
- 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
- We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco
- I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry,… — Umberto Eco
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. — Thomas Stearns Eliot