Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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