First, most of the quotations are translations from French, and translations of poetry often don't convey the quality of the original. Second, of those first wr

First, most of the quotations are translations from French, and translations of poetry often don't convey the quality of the original. Second, of those first written in English, a fair number are from Merle Haggard's songs, and probably better heard than read. My suggestion if you wanted to read more poetry would be to pick up a decent anthology and read with no or neutral expectations until something catches your attention. John Hollander's Committed to Memory is or was out of print, but is not hard to buy on line. I remember Louis Zukofsky's A Test of Poetry as pretty good, though I haven't looked into it in years. NYRB has brought John Williams's anthology of English Renaissance poetry back into print. Or you could listen to some Haggard.