Animal Quote by Elvis Costello

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

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

— Charles Bukowski

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

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

“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 are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you…

— W. S. Merwin

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

— Ali Smith

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Umberto Eco

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

— Ali Smith

“I daydreamed about BEING Anne. Traipsing through nineteenth-century meadows, reciting Romantic poetry (Keats was my fave, because he died with such gruesome panache.) One…

— Felicia Day

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end…

— Randall Jarrell