Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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