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
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."
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
-Dejan Stojanović
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
-René Char
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"
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
-Dudley Moore
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
-Allen Ginsberg
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
