Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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