Ass Quote by Sam Hamill

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it…

— Tony Kushner

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

Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity.…

— Barbara Holland

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. All I can say is that I have always written poems. I don't think I'm…

— Clive James

“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing…

— Ted Kooser

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

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

— John Fowles

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James