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

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden

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