Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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