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."

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

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