Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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."
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
