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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
-Jean Cocteau
"Le Rappel á l'ordre"
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
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
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
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
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
