Believe Quote by Randall Jarrell

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in…

— William Faulkner

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

— Robert Giroux

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

“Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read…

— Jasper Sole

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

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska