Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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