Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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