Quotations
Poet
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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