Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Quotations
Poet
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."
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
