Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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 don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
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
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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