Quotations
Poet
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
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