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
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
