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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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