Certainty Quote by Dylan Thomas

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.

— Martial

“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by…

— Neil Gaiman

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

— Carl Sandburg

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

“[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.”

— Edward Abbey

“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect your heart.”

— Elma Mitchell

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined…

— Samuel R. Delany

“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it is a…

— Frank O'Hara

“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have…

— Jeremiah Walton