Quotes by Good Poetry one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid Charles Bukowski good-poetry acid My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything. J. Boone good-poetry dog ideas Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as. Maya Angelou good-poetry appetite thinking The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower Michael Longley good-poetry enormous gaps It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry. Paul McCartney good-poetry serious knows It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. Philip Larkin good-poetry writing trying