Quotations
Poet
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
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 should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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 are never unemployed, just unpaid.
- Kathy Skaggs
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
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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