Quotations
Poet
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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