Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
