Quotations
Poet
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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