To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
