Books Quote by Philip Larkin

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what…

— Dana Gioia

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with…

— Cate Marvin

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be…

— James Arthur

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

— Antonin Artaud