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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
