Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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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