Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
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