Good Quote by Stephen Dunn

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between…

— Harry Mathews

Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems,…

— Stephen Burt

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

— Robert Bly

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

— Mary Oliver

“Now listen to me, please: On a winter day, when you were a lycée student, it was snowing, and you were lost in thought.…

— Orhan Pamuk

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

— Jane Hirshfield

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good…

— Edward Hirsch

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

— Albert Einstein

Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has…

— Alasdair Gray