All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
