Causes Quote by Gail Carriger

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

— Washington Irving

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

— Hortense Calisher

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

— Jan Clausen

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion,

— T. S. Eliot