Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
Quotations
Poet
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
"The Dyer's Hand"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
