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
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
