Quotations
Poet

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

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