Quotations
Poet
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
- W. H. Auden
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
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