Quotations
Poet
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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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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It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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