Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
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