Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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