All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
