Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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