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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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