Aware Quote by Felix Dennis

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

— Edwin Morgan

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

— Eminem

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

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

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

— Antonin Artaud