Quotations
Poet
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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