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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-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"
