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
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
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's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
- Jay Z
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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