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."
Quotations
Poet
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
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"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
