Quotations
Poet
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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