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
All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
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 poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
