Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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