Quotations
Poet
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
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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