Cents Quote by John Crowe Ransom

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

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

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry…

— Simon Armitage

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes…

— Robert Morgan

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

— Edmund Waller

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

“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

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

— Genevieve Taggard

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche