A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
