All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
