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
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
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"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
