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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
