Hate Quote by Denis Johnson

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

— Cate Marvin

I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep…

— Elaine Equi

“I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and interesting, but…

— Helon Habila

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,…

— Robert Frost

I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem…

— Billy Collins

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you…

— Billy Collins

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

— Cassandra Clare