Good Poets Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best,… — Clifton Fadiman
Good poets borrow, great poets steal — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler
Oh, what company good poets are! — Jose Marti
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare… — Christopher Logue
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. — Nicholson Baker
Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the… — Paul Engle
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
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
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. — Kenneth Koch

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