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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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