Quotations
Poet
A few moments in a poet’s company teach us more about the essence of art than many a lecture and books.
- Etinne Gilsun
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
- Paul Éluard
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
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
- Anonymous
A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.
- Criss Jami
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
- Jean Cocteau
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
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