Quotations
Poet
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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
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