No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
