All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
