Bad thing Quote by James Dickey

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

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

— Anonymous

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

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

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 either something that lives like fire inside you

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

— Grace Aguilar

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski