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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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