Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
- Jane Kenyon
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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