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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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