Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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