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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
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