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."
Quotations
Poet
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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
