All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
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 utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
