Quotations
Poet

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

-René Char 

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko "The Sole Survivor"

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

-Derek Walcott

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

-Walt Whitman

All good poems are victories over something.

-Stephen Dunn

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

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.

-Kathy Skaggs

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