All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
