Quotations
Poet
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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