Always wrong Quote by William Faulkner

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...

— William Faulkner

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

— William Faulkner

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their…

— Randall Jarrell

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

— David Hume

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

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

— Umberto Eco

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were…

— Wislawa Szymborska

“It is always difficult for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend, but because their…

— Randall Jarell

I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false.

— Hilton Als

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.…

— Michael Rosen

“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized…

— J.D. Salinger