If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
