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
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
- Pablo Neruda
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
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
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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