Certain Quote by Edith Sitwell

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would…

— C.S. Lewis

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do…

— Matthew Arnold

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

“the problem that I’ve found with most poets that I have known is that they’ve never had an 8 hour job and there is…

— Charles Bukowski

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the…

— Dana Gioia

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,”

— Paul Ruffin