A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
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
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."
