Quotations
Poet
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- 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
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
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