Quotations
Poet
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
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
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
- Walt Whitman
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
- Edmond De Goncourt
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
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
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
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