Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
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
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
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."
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn