I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.
I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
I'm not a great poetry fan.
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him.
