Important Quote by Gulzar

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

— Anne Stevenson

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

— T. S. Eliot

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity…

— Randall Jarrell

“A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take…

— William Empson

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

“The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley