If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Quotations
Poet
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
