Ifs Quote by Clive James

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

— James Tate

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

— James Fenton

Why then we should drop into poetry.

— Charles Dickens

I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think…

— Craig Ferguson

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver