“Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.”– Anne Stevenson Related Quotes “She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.”– James Dickey “Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.”– A. R. Ammons “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.”– Charles Baudelaire