Quotations
Poet
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
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
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- H. L. Mencken
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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