Crime Quote by Joseph McElroy

“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they in their…

— B.J. Ward

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.”

— Kenneth G. Ortiz

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“With poetry, rules are meant to be broken. And that's the beauty of poetry; it's rebellious, like me.”

— Melody Lee

“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”

— Wallace Stegner

“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner

“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 is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen