Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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 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."
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
