Quotations
Poet
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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
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