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 more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
-George Sand
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
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."
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
