Quotations
Poet
Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.
- Dudley Moore
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- Plato
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
- T. S. Eliot
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
All good poems are victories over something.
- Stephen Dunn
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
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
- René Char
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