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- 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… — 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.… — 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,… — Paul Engle
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature… — 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… — Umberto Eco