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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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