Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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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