Fancy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

— Anonymous

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

— Adrian Mitchell

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

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

— Nathalie Sarraute

“Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.”

— Adrian Mitchell

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

I'm not a great poetry fan.

— Rupert Everett

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say…

— James Laughlin

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

— Oscar Wilde