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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
