Quotations
Poet
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
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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