Quotations
Poet
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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 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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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