When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear And Trembling; Repetition"
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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 never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
-Jean Cocteau
