Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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