Quotations
Poet
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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