Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
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