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
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
- Søren Kierkegaard
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
- W. H. Auden
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
- T. S. Eliot
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