Hated Quote by Eddie the Eagle

No hate to Shakespeare. I really love him.

— Rachel Sennott

I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and…

— Chuck Berry

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

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

— Spike Milligan

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

I'm not a great poetry fan.

— Rupert Everett

I hate Shakespeare. I think Shakespeare's rubbish.

— Anonymous

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

— Walter Savage Landor

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on all that…

— Elliot Perlman

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl