Quotations
Poet
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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
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 not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
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