Poetry Quote by Harold Bloom

“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered”

— Afiena Kamminga

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.”

— Harold Bloom

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not a true…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

— William H. Macy

“Poets are fools until they are kings.”

— Atticus

“In the land of poetry commentary, you will encounter those who take poetry too lightly, and those who take poetry too seriously. The former…

— Jasper Sole

“Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were…

— Robert E. Howard

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley