Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
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
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
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
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