Buckles Quote by Michael Longley

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

— Marvin Bell

It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well as reject…

— Gulzar

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

— Ezra Pound

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

— Anne Waldman

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that…

— John Ashbery

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“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 can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

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

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche