Penises Quote by Rachel Zucker

Many of my poems are not sexual.

— Thom Gunn

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

— Archibald MacLeish

To all men who read poetry; I bet if women had dicks, they'd shove them in your mouths to shut you the fuck up.

— Nikhil Saluja

I mean I write poems in these songs, dedicated to the fun sex.

— Drake

“Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom! penis vagina.”

— Martin Leicht

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

— Shane McCrae

“All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

— Katy Lederer

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

— James Schuyler

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

— Rico Rodriguez

I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning…

— Charles Bukowski