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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then. — Edward Hirsch

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity. — Drew Gooden

One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. — Wilkie Collins

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. — George Santayana

People have to know there is more to living than physical things. — Ziggy Marley

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement. — Jane Hirshfield

To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. — Avijeet Das

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. — W. H. Auden

One
man's "ugly" is another man's "beautiful. — Sherry Argov

To write good poems is the secret of brevity. — Dejan Stojanovic

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend. — Martial

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath

All good poems are victories over something. — Stephen Dunn

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. — Lewis Carroll

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

What good are wings without the courage to fly? — Atticus Poetry

be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get — R H Sin

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry. — Bill Veeck

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. — Napoleon Bonaparte

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy. — Walter Inglis Anderson

Doom that walks always swiftly, because she goes to the shedding of blood — Oscar Wilde

How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it — Mignon McLaughlin

You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. — Jenim Dibie

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened. — Garrett Camp