Discovered Quote by Karen Russell

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

— Felix Dennis

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

— Isaac Rosenberg

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

— Jonas Mekas

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion

Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet.…

— Gene Weingarten

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

— Eminem

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.

— Benjamin Clementine