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 is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
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"
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"The Sole Survivor"
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
"Le Poète déchu"
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
-H. L. Mencken
