Quotations
Poet
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
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
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