To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
-Walt Whitman
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."
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
-Paul Éluard
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
-Derek Walcott
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
-Criss Jami
No poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.
-W. H. Auden
"The Dyer's Hand"
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
"Decoded"
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-Pablo Neruda
Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
-Kathy Skaggs
