Quotations
Poet
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
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
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 few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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