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'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"
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
"Busman's Honeymoon"
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
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
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
