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
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
-Plato
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
-Marty Rubin
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
