Dirty sex Quote by Charles Simic

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind:…

— James Agee

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Great poetry is capable of dealing with erotic passion, but it has to be the very greatest to represent that deeper and more tortuous…

— Claudio Magris

“What, you don’t think I’m capable of poetry after sex?”

— Richelle Mead

“Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means -- and with absolute sincerity --…

— A.S. Byatt

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected…

— Tracy K. Smith