Quotations
Poet

All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović

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