Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Quotations
Poet
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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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."
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
