Annoying Quote by Walter Scott

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there…

— Derek Walcott

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides…

— Terry Eagleton

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute

“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe rich. And…

— Li-Young Lee

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Someties it is hard to criticize, one wants only to chronicle. The good and mediocre books come in from week to week, and I…

— Randall Jarrell

“One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals…

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so?…

— Walter Martin

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

— Mason Cooley

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better…

— Mark Twain