Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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