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"
Quotations
Poet
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."
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
-Edmund Burke
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
-Etinne Gilsun
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
-T. S. Eliot
"Dante"
Always be a poet, even in prose.
-Charles Baudelaire
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
