Quotations
Poet
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
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
- Marty Rubin
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
- Allen Ginsberg
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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