Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
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
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- George Sand
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