To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
