Quotations
Poet
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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