Quotations
Poet

No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

-W. H. Auden "The Dyer's Hand"

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

-Jean Cocteau

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

-René Char 

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

-Edmund Burke

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."

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.

-Etinne Gilsun

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"

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

-Derek Walcott

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

-Jean Cocteau

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

-Marty Rubin

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