Deserve Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

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

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

— Anne Sexton

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

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really…

— Sam Hamill

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

“Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you’ve got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine…

— Stephen King

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

— Wole Soyinka