Addiction Quote by Donald Hall

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language…

— Stephen Burt

Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ...…

— T. S. Eliot

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong

A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has…

— Alasdair Gray

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in…

— Thomas Lynch

There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all we care…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

— Anonymous