Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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