Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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