Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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