All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
-Jane Kenyon
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
