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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
