Quotations
Poet
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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