Quotations
Poet
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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