At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-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."
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
