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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
— Robert Morgan
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
Trust in good verse then: They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire. — Arthur Quiller-Couch
One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
— Charles Bukowski
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
— Anthony Hecht
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
— Susan Griffin
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
— Cheryl Hines
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.
— Debasish Mridha
I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.
— Alysia Harris
NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.Dangerous by Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale
It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.
— Robert Hass
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
— Donald Hall
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
— Edwin Morgan
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
— Charles Bukowski
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
— Orson F. Whitney
The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
— Jeremy Bentham
Should I get married? Should I be good?
— Gregory Corso
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
— Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
— Osbert Sitwell
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
— John Fuller
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
If only good intentions were enough to make good poetry!
— Aldous Huxley
And all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.
— Jane Merchant
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Oh, precious losing streak,you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood. — Casey Renee Kiser
Let my name perish, the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it. — Sidney Lanier
You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
You were never good at scent, I suppose.I decreased,
weakened and sensitive to minor comments. — Farrah Field
A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention.
— Farrah Field
If you are good, they say you are weak.
— Dejan Stojanovic
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
— Sylvia Plath
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.
— Patricia MacLachlan
A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.
— R.L. Raymond
Only good poets cure us of an overindulgence in words. Only simple essential food cures us of gluttony.
— Hector Abad Faciolince
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.
— Nikki Giovanni
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth
It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
— Paul McCartney
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
— Alice Sebold
Good memories are my retirement plan.
— Atticus
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
— John Steinbeck
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
— Wislawa Szymborska
You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope — J.D. Estrada
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.
— Izaak Walton
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
— Lord Alfred Douglas
Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.
— Robert James Waller
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
— Diane Wakoski
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.
— Rupert Brooke
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
— Atticus Poetry
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
— Kenneth Koch
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves
— Lorna Goodison
our feet are grape-squashed in memories
our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips. — Sanober Khan
Good religious poetry ... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
— A.E. Housman
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
— Michael Longley
The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton
Poetry is good for unleashing images.
— Paula Rego
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
— Adrian Mitchell
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
— Amber Tamblyn
we always knewthat good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it. — Sanober Khan
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Evil is not good's absence but gravity'severlasting bedrock and its fatal chains
inert, violent, the suffrage of our days. — Geoffrey Hill
