Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
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"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
