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
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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