Quotations
Poet
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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
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