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One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid — Charles Bukowski

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

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. — Cheryl Hines

Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road
late at night. — Kim Addonizio

When a man is unhappy he writes damned bad poetry, I find. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dreaming of getting you
I loosed everything
Cheerfulness of smile
And all the dreams of life — Hasil Paudyal

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele

Now, whom are we here to conspire against?' 'Poetry,' I said. 'Namely, Romeo's poetry.' 'Is it that bad? — Rachel Caine

A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich

Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands. — Jessica Kristie

Some stars are large, and some are small,
And some are quite invisiball! — Walter R. Brooks

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

Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle. — James Dickey

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

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

But bad manners or vulgar gestures can sometimes have a touch of poetry about them, just enough not to arouse one's indignation. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad. — Peter Porter

Bad bananas are like push-up bras
a promise of tenderness can deliver tasteless mush, and we're not supposed to complain. — Kate Lebo

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool. — Dejan Stojanovic

If they succeed, you will not be packed off to some idyllic farm, where you can write bad poetry, we will both be executed. — A.H. Septimius

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry. — Jonas Mekas

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

Be them good times,
Be them bad times,
I swear to you
They never last! — Maddy Kobar

During our first date,
I wanted to hold your hand so bad
I almost cut mine off
and threw it at you
to see if you would catch it — Colin Gilbert

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it. — Felix Dennis

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good. — Edgar Allan Poe

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. — Karl French

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C.S. Lewis

Bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell. — Raegan Butcher

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde

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

Poetry
even bad poetry
may be our final hope. — Edward Abbey

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly. — Josh Lanyon

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. — John Dryden

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater. — Charlie N. Holmberg

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry — Moliere

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. — Archibald MacLeish

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look. — Ali Smith

I do not blame him
for not knowing
the gentleness of my soul.

When I only showed him,
how violently
I loved. — Saiber

Give me another Chance
Then,
You will Get
Less than I Gain... — Hasil Paudyal

May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours — Hasil Paudyal

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning. — Paul Valery

You chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with! — Charles Bukowski

Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers. — John Berryman