No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Quotations
Poet
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
