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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
