Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
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