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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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