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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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