Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
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
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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