Devil Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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. Then we might even come…

— 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

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…

— Mary Ruefle

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems…

— James Joyce

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

I don't believe that poetry is in danger because nobody wants to read it or appreciate it. There is a tremendous audience for it…

— Derek Walcott