No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
-Anonymous
" Movie “Dead Poet's Society"
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin