Bad Quote by Victor Hugo

No bad man can be a good poet.

— Boris Pasternak

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him…

— Paul Valery

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility…

— Ben Jonson

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

— Edward Dahlberg

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

— H. L. Mencken

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good…

— John Dewey

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

— Umberto Eco

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…

— David Lehman

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell