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
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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