Clarity Quote by Randall Jarrell

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader…

— Lydia Davis

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out…

— Billy Collins

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

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

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't…

— Norman MacCaig

“Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,”

— Paul Ruffin

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

— Billy Collins

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche