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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
