Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred De Musset
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
- Edith Södergran
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood.
- Jean Cocteau
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