Quotations
Poet

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

-W. H. Auden "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II."

Always be a poet, even in prose.

-Charles Baudelaire

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

-Alfred De Musset "Le Poète déchu"

A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.

-Etinne Gilsun

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

-Dudley Moore

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

-Jane Kenyon

The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.

-Jean Cocteau "Le Rappel á l'ordre"

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

-Dorothy L. Sayers "Busman's Honeymoon"

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

-Yevgeny Yevtushenko "The Sole Survivor"

All good poems are victories over something.

-Stephen Dunn

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