Quotations
Poet
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
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