All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
