After Quote by Simon Schama

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

— Karen Joy Fowler

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

— Kate Morton

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

— Felix Dennis

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my…

— Kate Zambreno

I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick.…

— Charles Bukowski

“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I…

— Frank O'Hara

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. And I used my mom as an excuse, accusing…

— Jay Asher

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

— Sylvia Plath

“And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" You can’t say it that way any more. Bothered about beauty you have to Come out into…

— John Ashbery

I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

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

— Charles Bukowski