Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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