Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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