Sentence examples for bad poets from inspiring English sources

Dulness presides over the efforts of hack writers and bad poets.

But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it.

DAVID MIKICS Houston To the Editor: Mr. Vinciguerra, how could you speak of Joyce Kilmer and Rudyard Kipling in the same breath as "good bad" poets?

Of course, there are a lot of bad poets in thrall to Bukowski - after all, his great skill lay in making the writing of great poetry seem easy.

Dante is not simply a document of the middle ages, nor Shakespeare of the English Renaissance; as such, they have many equals or superiors among bad poets and non-poets.

With Six Bad Poets (Faber), he has produced another narrative sequence, along the lines of 2009's The Song of Lunch, and one that allows him to indulge his ventriloquistic panache.

He's such a bad poet.

Why? Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet.

If I'm a bad poet, that means a liar".

Phrynichus's experimentations with metre earned him a reputation as a bad poet.

I think Kilmer can best be described as a "bad bad" poet, maybe the baddest anyone has ever heard of.