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
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
- Jean Cocteau
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
- Dejan Stojanović
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
It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.
- Dejan Stojanović
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.
- Derek Walcott
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
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