Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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