Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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