A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
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"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
