Quotations
Poet
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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