Finals Quote by Edward Abbey

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is…

— John Milton

The Dallas Mavericks are our final hope. This is it. America's final hope rests on Mark Cuban and a 7 foot German. It's life…

— Anonymous

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

— Ali Smith

You make me want to write bad poetry.

— Anonymous

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

— Charles Bukowski

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from.…

— Elvis Costello

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard…

— David Longstreth

The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive.…

— Gabrielle Hamilton

“But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had…

— Stanisław Lem

“There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look.”

— Ali Smith