A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
