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."
Quotations
Poet
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
