Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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