Quotations
Poet
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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