Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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