Dislike Quote by Oscar Wilde

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

— Oscar Wilde

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go…

— Gary D. Schmidt

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to interpret the pope's words, especially as I am one of those horrible people who fell away from the Roman church…

— Wolfgang Schauble

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its…

— Robert Hass

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

— Anonymous