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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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