Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
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 is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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